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Recent Examples of hinging
Exercises that involve pulling and hinging movements can effectively target multiple back muscles.
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Jakob Roze, Health, 21 Apr. 2026
At least one of Mellone’s cases had been rejected in lower courts before the new law, hinging partially on rulings that Italian emigrants who took on another citizenship before having children cannot pass on Italian citizenship.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Start with primary movement patterns including squatting, hinging, pushing, pulling, rotating and core stabilization, where compensation is easiest to identify and address.
—Dana Santas, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
This foundational pose, which involves hinging at the hips and putting the body into an upside down V shape, recruits major muscles in the back, shoulders and legs.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 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
Jakob Roze, Health, 21 Apr. 2026
At least one of Mellone’s cases had been rejected in lower courts before the new law, hinging partially on rulings that Italian emigrants who took on another citizenship before having children cannot pass on Italian citizenship.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Start with primary movement patterns including squatting, hinging, pushing, pulling, rotating and core stabilization, where compensation is easiest to identify and address.
—Dana Santas, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
This foundational pose, which involves hinging at the hips and putting the body into an upside down V shape, recruits major muscles in the back, shoulders and legs.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 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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The ground stop, tied to thunderstorms in the area, was scheduled to remain in effect through late morning, with a medium chance it could be extended depending on how the weather evolves.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Forecasters warn that storms will likely come in multiple rounds, with the potential for different hazards depending on timing and location.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Hinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinging. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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