ankle
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During a tree climb, a chimpanzee ankle can flex upward by about 45 degrees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
However, there are questions over her fitness because of an ankle injury sustained in the Cincinnati quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
After breaking his ankle in a pickup basketball game in 2010, he got the insurance bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
For Kate Jones, who had to give up long-distance running after an ankle injury, setting the New York record in 2023 restored her sense of autonomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Then she crosses one leg over the other and swings her ankle back and forth, back and forth, which makes me feel even more nervous than I already was.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
In a recent game at Golden State, her dribble behind the back to create space for a 3-pointer left a Valkyries player staggering backward and grabbing her ankles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
I close my eyes and, suddenly, my legs wobble and my ankles quiver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
We closed out with Kid ’n Play’s Kick Step until our ankles tangled and we dropped onto the carpet in hysterics.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
