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 Keeping your core engaged and a soft bend in your standing knee, hinge forward from your hips while lifting your left leg straight behind you. Dana Santas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025 The company is now hinging a lot of its future on artificial intelligence development. Ryan Baker,andrew Evers, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025 The tree features hinged branches, making setup and teardown straightforward (just push each hinge down and pop into a storage bag). Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025 But Gakpo’s final chance — by far the biggest — is the one on which the game hinged. Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hinge
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depend
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  • Oxygen produces green or red depending on the altitude, and nitrogen either blue or purple.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But this is still a flawed team in a lot of ways, depending heavily on Jackson staying healthy and being at his best every Sunday.
    Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Hinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinge. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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