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Recent Examples of hinging
Bend your knees slightly and lean forward by hinging at your hips until your torso is roughly parallel to the floor.
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Danielle Zickl, Health, 12 Jan. 2026
Today's elections will show just how durable those advances were, hinging in part on the progress the Republican Party under Trump made with groups that once voted more strongly against the GOP, such as Latino voters.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
The company is now hinging a lot of its future on artificial intelligence development.
—Ryan Baker,andrew Evers, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
One pilot stops to pick up a bottle of hot sauce from a counter, hinging at the waist, making sure to keep her hands in view of the camera on her headset at all times.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
That doesn’t feel quite right for a sequence that ends in tragedy, hinging largely on Perfidia’s struggles with postpartum depression and her encounters with the limits of revolutionary political violence.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Danielle Zickl, Health, 12 Jan. 2026
Today's elections will show just how durable those advances were, hinging in part on the progress the Republican Party under Trump made with groups that once voted more strongly against the GOP, such as Latino voters.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
The company is now hinging a lot of its future on artificial intelligence development.
—Ryan Baker,andrew Evers, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
One pilot stops to pick up a bottle of hot sauce from a counter, hinging at the waist, making sure to keep her hands in view of the camera on her headset at all times.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
That doesn’t feel quite right for a sequence that ends in tragedy, hinging largely on Perfidia’s struggles with postpartum depression and her encounters with the limits of revolutionary political violence.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hinging
depending
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Social media reaction — good or bad, depending on the performance and result — is an unreliable barometer of reality.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Broil until cheese is melted, browned, and bubbling, 3–6 minutes, depending on your oven (watch carefully).—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Hinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinging. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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