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Recent Examples of recline
Recline Many ergonomic chairs come with the ability to recline.
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Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
It can be reclined to multiple positions and can be folded.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
The performance glided to a close with all seven men reclining on one elbow on the stage before popping up for a last run of perfectly synched choreo and a final straight line pose to soak up the adulation.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2025
One of the movie’s scenes — startling for its frankness but also its visual beauty — finds the men reclined in the dark of the mine.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Midway through the period, though, the ice started to tilt in the other direction.—
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Players gain Hope points to activate special abilities and tilt the odds in their favor.—
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Carrie Underwood also stepped outside her comfort zone, hesitantly providing critical feedback (but always couching it with praise, of course).—
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Your challenge is to couch your communication in neutral messages and adapt it to the relevant audience.—
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Deputies were shooting at a downward angle, since the gore was sloped, and footage showed bullets striking the roadway.—
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Being built on a hillside that sloped down from the nearby Manningham Lane brought another quirk, in that there was a void between the earth and the wooden floor ranging from nine to 30 inches.—
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In easy-going Del Mar, where the coast inclines almost imperceptibly, a sixth-floor perch suddenly feels sky-high—lofty enough to steal the whole horizon.—
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Should the economy slow further, the Fed could be inclined to lower interest rates — but doing so carries the risk of stoking inflation as more people buy goods and services, thus giving sellers incentives to raise prices.—
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His parents went to sleep that night believing their son would soon be in Florida, and play a practice round that next day.—
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The quiet child keeps mostly to himself, eating lunch in the locker room and occasionally sleeping there too.—
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Barry leans heavily on old clips of his writing to fill this book up, and that’s fine, but near the end the bag of leftovers grows soggy.—
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The baby, whom the couple welcomed in January, made exactly one cameo in Brittany’s photo dump from the family’s outing — a rare snap of the mom of three holding her while Patrick leaned down and smiled at the little one.—
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Mother Lexi Swan needed a quick bathroom break while her newborn napped in the rocker.—
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Because many nursing sessions end with the baby fast asleep (and the parent utterly exhausted), these pillows have taken on double duty as a napping spot for babies.—
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The nylon bristles are angled to ensure that strands migrate to the side of the cleaner head rather than getting wrapped around or tangled in the brush bar.—
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Rather than build on a north-south axis, Frank angled the more than 5,000-square-foot steel-beam structure to run from the southeast to northwest on its corner parcel, with everything flaring out from a spacious central hub.—
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“Recline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recline. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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