hinge
Example Sentences
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“The whole point is that you get to try something that you’ve always wanted to try, and your entire survival is not hinging on it,” Moriarity said.
From MarketWatch
The decision also hinges on issues like your tax rate now versus later, the final tax bill and your estate plans, it adds.
From MarketWatch
The gambit of “Slanted” hinges on the audience accepting that Joan is still the same person when Chen hands her off to Grace midway through the film.
From Los Angeles Times
Where the S&P 500 goes next is clearly hinging on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz.
I described the hinge that never quite fastened, the edges that didn’t line up, and the paint that dried a little bumpy—so many imperfections that usually would have bugged me but didn’t.
From Literature
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