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incline

[in-klahyn, in-klahyn, in-klahyn] / ɪnˈklaɪn, ˈɪn klaɪn, ɪnˈklaɪn /






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The stress and emotional aftermath they’re each facing is a tightrope walk … with an incline.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Since then, for a host of complicated and mostly unforeseeable reasons, disparate circumstances across the region incline, slowly, in a promising direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In other words, investors may find it a lot more difficult to keep up if the incline gets steeper and steeper.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Alexander’s athletes would run his pass rushing drills up the hill’s steep incline.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

There at the bottom of a sharp incline they saw before them a long flat mile, and beyond that the Ford of Rivendell.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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