hinged
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“The case hinged on the testimony of inmate witnesses who testified in shackles and orange jumpsuits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Richard Windsor, an independent analyst at Radio Free Mobile, said Alphabet’s earnings-per-share figure hinged largely on the “illusory security of a series of unrealized investment returns that will evaporate at the first hint of trouble.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
This was also the argument that her appeal hinged on.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But Hockney didn’t ally himself with the movement—or any other—insisting that his vast oeuvre hinged simply on “looking, always looking.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
And paying for school hinged on strapping on a harness and lowering himself over the edge of a cliff in the morning.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
