recurve
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Which brings us back to the hero’s mythical recurve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The archery ranking rounds with the compound and recurve bows are being held this morning Tokyo time as well, setting up how the competition will unfold on later days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2021
Competitors use either recurve or compound bows, depending on the event.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
In lieu of a recurve in front of the delta in the inner pattern area, an obstruction at right angles to the line of flow will suffice.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory and pale green.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes; a cup-shaped crown connecting the stamens.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Capsule globose, 4-cleft to the middle, the valves recurved.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.
From Time Magazine Archive
A recurving ridge enters from the right side and exits in the same direction.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
If the delta is located in areas B, the recurving ridge is not counted.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
A recurving ridge, however, which has an appendage connected with it in the line of flow and on the delta side cannot be construed as a circuit.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The shoulders of a loop are the points at which the recurving ridge definitely turns inward or curves.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
