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Recent Examples of flexure
The colon's transverse section lies horizontally, and the splenic flexure (where the colon curves sharply beneath the lower end of the spleen) is located in the LUQ.
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Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
How much cleavage, compression, flexure, impact, tension, or shear is required to break the plane of a Titebond bond?
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
Processes such as hydrofracture and flexure remain understudied, and ice-sheet models do not yet include realistic treatment of these processes.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
How much cleavage, compression, flexure, impact, tension, or shear is required to break the plane of a Titebond bond?
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
Processes such as hydrofracture and flexure remain understudied, and ice-sheet models do not yet include realistic treatment of these processes.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flexure
Noun
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Two-step leadership involves reframing those losses as loops, not cliffs.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Orange loops show where the eclipse begins or ends at sunrise and sunset.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Because of the coils, the bed is bouncier than other options and lacks motion isolation.—
Molly Higgins,
WIRED,
17 Mar. 2025
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The single coil bridge pickup buzzed with a sixty-cycle hum.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Starting with the player to the dealer's left, check, call or fold.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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Now the sun lit up the astonishing length of the Muldrow Glacier thousands of feet below, animating its frozen folds like ripples on a running river.—
Cassidy Randall,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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Strange forms poured out of her—big looping flowers, organic spirals, cubes of contrasting primary colors.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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In a post on X, AccuWeather said the mesmerizing blue spiral might have been caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The blanket itself has no special features, but the pouch includes an adjustable buckle for easy transport.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Mar. 2025
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These Birkenstock sandals match the trend thanks to their oversized buckles.—
Blanca de Almandoz,
Glamour,
21 Mar. 2025
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Update: Republished on March 23 with a warning into a new text attack and a twist on this surging Chinese threat, with additional advice on how to stay safe.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Watch Servant on Apple TV+ Mythic Quest Mythic Quest is a workplace comedy with a massive twist.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The theft happened at a time, with the pandemic winding down, when restaurants, as a social idea, felt precious, and possibly endangered.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The city’s terra-cotta rooftops and winding alleyways feel lifted from the pages of the play.—
Becca Blond,
AFAR Media,
10 Feb. 2025
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The film whisks through various plot convolutions, but the real attraction is the sharp dialogue (David Mamet co-writes the script), the tense scenes of spycraft in practice, and action sequences that Frankenheimer must have been waiting his whole career to shoot.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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The plot veers through various sidetracking convolutions and there is more exposition than necessary tied to supplementary characters.—
Christopher Smith,
Orange County Register,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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