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Recent Examples of recline
An adjustable bed frame allows sleepers to incline and recline the angle of their mattress.
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Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
All Qantas business-class seats recline into a fully flat bed and have direct aisle access.
—AFAR Media, 9 Oct. 2025
The new service, which will launch in November, will feature 21 seats on a double-decker bus (18 on the upper level and three on the lower level), each of which recline into a fully lie-flat bed, according to the company.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
These chairs recline to a zero-gravity position to evenly distribute your weight, reducing pressure on your joints.
—Nora Colomer
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Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
All Qantas business-class seats recline into a fully flat bed and have direct aisle access.
—AFAR Media, 9 Oct. 2025
The new service, which will launch in November, will feature 21 seats on a double-decker bus (18 on the upper level and three on the lower level), each of which recline into a fully lie-flat bed, according to the company.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
These chairs recline to a zero-gravity position to evenly distribute your weight, reducing pressure on your joints.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recline
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The stack tilted, then dropped in one piece before striking the ground with a heavy thud.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Feb. 2026
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During one recent — and raucous — Friday-night taping, Wood tilted back and forth with his two regular panelists.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2026
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The way the story is being couched, Audi is going to build its new TT coupe whether Porsche forges ahead with the 718 EV or not.—
Byron Hurd,
The Drive,
19 Feb. 2026
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Republicans often couched their fury at speech restrictions — around right-wing cultural politics and COVID-19, in particular — as part of a broader critique of corporate power.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Jamieson said the photographed shark maintained a depth of around 1,640 feet along a seabed that sloped into deeper water.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2026
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Sunrise Park Resort The ski resort in the White Mountains has snow tubing, cross-country skiing and snow biking as well as downhill slopes for skiing and snowboarding.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Michael Wong, the city’s Deputy Financial Secretary, said the administration was inclined to dismantle the seven buildings and would not redevelop residential homes on the fire site.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Spending and saving Customers who are feeling flush may also be inclined to deploy their refunds toward big-ticket items or to pay off outstanding debt, according to Bank of America analyst Mihir Bhatia.—
Darla Mercado, CFP®,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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His company is best known for a meditation and sleep app that has been downloaded by 180 million consumers.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Colin cooks Ray meals, sleeps on the floor while Ray takes the bed, lets Ray shave his hair off, and wears a lock on a chain around his neck.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2026
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Early state-level data — in California and Pennsylvania, for example — suggests thousands of households have also chosen to downgrade to bronze plans, researchers at the Urban Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said in an e-mail.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Republican primary for the right-leaning district, Colorado’s largest by geography, is June 30.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2026
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The loose, wide-leg cut is chic enough to wear around the Airbnb and relaxed enough to fall asleep in, while the easy pull-on style makes the transition from all-day exploring to pre-dinner napping seamless.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2026
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During the growing season, the more than 240,000 panels of the Clover Creek Solar Project are kept free of sagebrush by sheep that happily graze between the lines, napping in the shade of the panels during the hottest parts of the day.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Umbrellas angled just so over boxes of organic produce on her porch.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2026
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As parents across the nation grapple with crippling daycare bills that threaten to keep them at home and out of the workforce, political leaders from New York to San Francisco have been angling to expand access to free and subsidized care.—
Morgan Lee,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Recline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recline. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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