hinge

as in to depend
to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) the outcome of the game hinged on a single play

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Recent Examples of hinge Interlace your fingers behind your back, straighten your arms as much as possible, and hinge forward from your hips. Riya Davda, Outside, 5 Oct. 2025 At a time when starting pitchers do not get pushed deep into games — and Wrigley Field has turned into a difficult hitting environment — this best-of-three matchup could ultimately hinge upon which club has the better bullpen. Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 Push your hip slightly back and hinge forward on the lunging leg to load your glutes. Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025 Everything hinges, however, on the assertion that bondpeople were constant capital, which appears five times within the first fifty pages of the work. Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hinge
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depend
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  • When deciding where to drill holes in the wooden balls, Robson realized that a huge amount of chemical information depended on the position of the holes.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Much depends on what the brand’s retail network is.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Hinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinge. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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