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incurvature

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Definition of incurvature

as in loop

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Not a crisis — yet The negative feedback loop becomes more dangerous when nominal economic growth falls to low levels, causing debt relative to the size of the economy to rise persistently, Reese said.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
What knocks him for a deadly loop is a powdered, pampered piece of work called Mildred (Elizabeth Teeter).

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of loop

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The cultural demons a 34-year-old playwright was conjuring a century ago rise up as dark reflections for our own.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
If someone solves a problem that the mathematical community has decided is central and important and hard, that solution is considered a reflection of deep insight and creativity.

— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of reflection

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In September, high tides and powerful wave activity from Hurricane Marie buffeted the San Clemente coastline, temporarily halting Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink service after more erosion and slope damage were spotted near the train tracks.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Two to 3 inches of rain are expected in the Charlotte region, the mountains and Upstate South Carolina from Isaias, with higher amounts – 3 or 4 inches – along steep slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, NWS meteorologists said.

— Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of slope

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The best twists will come out of the moves that the firms can’t possibly anticipate.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Award-winning chef Kai Mueller has created a large and unusual menu that leans into the location, with a much healthier twist (all dishes that are safe to have on the detox programme are clearly marked).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of twist

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Don't expect the enormous spiral shown in long-exposure photographs.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026
In Proserpina, eleven vertical yellow wooden rods, enrobed in layers of gray and maroon wire netting, increase in length around a wire-mesh spiral that reaches three feet at its tallest point.

— Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of spiral

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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

Definition of flexure

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Landfall is not necessarily where the strongest winds are, and the wider swirl of a storm can spread destruction across large areas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Ocean-facing rooms have hot tubs built into the balconies and few things are more relaxing than watching the neon-pinky swirl of sunset from the tub, through the layer of jungle bush.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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