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flexures

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plural of flexure

as in folds

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Instead, pack blazers, dress shirts, and anything with structure in a garment bag, which requires fewer folds and lays flat.

— Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2026
Fifty folds makes the paper about 113 million km thick, so one more gets you past the sun—51 folds is about 225 million km.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of folds

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ComEd said the oil is used to insulate the electrical current in the transformer, which generates heat, and also helps protect the transformer's coils as the unit heats up.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
The current instrument now uses standard spark plugs and ignition coils like those in car engines.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of coils

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In their alternating waves of resentment and understanding, anger and sorrow, D’Arcy and Cooke imbue Rhaenyra and Alicent’s dynamic with all the weight of this history and none of its convolutions.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 15 June 2026
Laser light and microscopic lenses then carry out convolutions faster and with lower energy needs.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025

Definition of convolutions

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One user request now triggers chains of model calls, tool executions, retrieval steps and recursive planning loops.

— Srikanta Datta, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Solar prominences One of the most surprising aspects of witnessing a total solar eclipse is a view of prominences during totality, bright pink spikes or loops that appear around the moon's silhouette.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of loops

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The knob twists and depresses like a button (with programmable options for both a short and long press).

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026
There are cameos, twists and a fair amount of busywork setting up future films, but but the film’s focus remains squarely on Holland’s twin mission of defeating a mysterious new enemy and dealing with the aching loss of his girlfriend.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of twists

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Just a few hours after dropping pics of herself with voluminous, body-licious curls, Khloé Kardashian decided to kick off August with a fresh hair cut—and introduced us all to her alter ego, Bob Kardashian, in the process.

— Kara Nesvig, Allure, 7 Aug. 2026
The team identified 47 of these vortex-bearing interfaces in the telescope’s field of view and measured the spacing between adjacent curls.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

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