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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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Company leaders need to define explicitly what AI fluency means for employees depending on their role.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Anything left to mention A 4x4 transfer along a road (and beach, depending on the tide) is the usual way to get there, but the fantasy arrival would be to wade ashore after sailing along the coast on a traditional dhow.—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Hinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinging. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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