joints

plural of joint

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Recent Examples of joints Muscles crossing multiple joints such as the hamstrings appear especially vulnerable to variations in playing surfaces, given their central role in sprinting and cutting. Michael Hales, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025 The steel-rod reinforcement does double duty keeping joints tight and gap free and adding stability at each corner as well as anchoring the home to the ground. Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025 The victory comes on the heels of Mangieri topping the same association’s ranking of the 50 best pizza joints in America earlier this year for the fourth time in a row. Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025 On average, participants reported using the equivalent of 10 to 17 joints per week considering today's strains are widely reported to be much stronger than in past decades. Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025 Lockhart is known for its barbecue prowess and plays host to a number of joints, including Barbs B Q, which is in the Michelin Guide Texas and is on Texas Monthly’s list of the best barbecue in the state. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025 Engineers can control each individual motor in Spot’s legs, which function much like joints in organic creatures. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025 Tendons, ligaments and muscles naturally shorten with time, which results in stiff joints and people being hunched over and shuffling around. Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 It is now being advanced for secondary aluminum and cast-to-cast joints, alongside a sustainability assessment. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joints
Noun
  • Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Four rotors, mounted at wing junctions, provide lift for vertical flight and stability during transition.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The bans are mandated in places such as Arkansas, Texas, Virginia and more.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Here are luckiest numbers, places to play Did anyone win Powerball last night, September 13, 2025?
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brown passed through courts and prisons like other people suffering mental health disorders, said Weaver, the Charlotte NAMI director.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The facility, Algoa Correctional Center, is one of four Missouri prisons with no air conditioning in any of the housing units.
    Ivy Scott, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project is meant to address reckless driving habits like passing in parking lanes and dangerous intersections.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • City officials encourage motorists at unmarked intersections to measure the allowable distance in terms of vehicle size.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of the three facilities her friend recommended, The Menninger Clinic in Houston was the only one that returned her call.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Financing challenges, supply chain disruptions, an uncertain talent pipeline, and — critically — a widening shortfall of the uranium required to run nuclear power facilities all loom as issues for a sector seen as key to addressing electricity demand growth while weaning grids off fossil fuels.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, these establishments have been the places where families gathered after ballgames, where road trips stopped for pancakes, and where Main Street found an affordable night out.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More than 250 people have died while in the agency’s custody in county jails since 2006, a mortality rate significantly higher than in other large jail systems in the state.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The agency investigates all in-custody deaths which occur in Kansas jails and prisons unless the inmate who died was being regularly attended by a physician or the death is ruled natural by an autopsy.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025

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