hinge on
Example Sentences
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Grant: Great careers used to hinge on ability, and now they depend on agility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
That may hinge on whether one of the smaller parties gets over the required threshold of 5%.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
International students, knowing their family’s financial futures hinge on their degrees, operate in terror of failure and deportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Jobs with high exposure tended to hinge on information analysis, while jobs with low scores tended to focus on manual work and direct interactions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
But L.V. knew how much emotion and energy had been wrapped into Boobie’s senior year, how so much of Boobie’s life, as well as his own, seemed to hinge on it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
