incurving

present participle of incurve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurving
Verb
  • Penn would have to make $511 monthly payments over 72 months, reflecting an interest rate of 28%.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The title track off the album finds Swift and her protégé, fellow pop star Sabrina Carpenter, reflecting on the highs and lows of fame.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Presented in Lightness & Tension, an exhibition curated by roving gallerist Ulysses de Santi, Simões’s work is rooted in material exploration, as seen in the Sleeper chair, a curving steel form that suggests Brazilian midcentury modernism.
    Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Here the set becomes a comedy generator, a set of curving sides that Reeves can lean against and slide bonelessly down.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lockwood has admired Plath for years; what confounded her was the biographical approach to her work, the terrible death inflecting everything that came before.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He will be killed by his brother, the angel Ejllael (Steve Noh), for bowing to a human.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Though Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air, the Directors Guild of America isn’t acting like this instance of a Hollywood corporation apparently bowing to political pressure will be a one-off.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Old-fashioned abelias with their arching shape need to be cut back to the ground every year.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Keep your shoulders relaxed and engage your core to avoid arching your back.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Incurving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurving. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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