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recumbent

[ri-kuhm-buhnt] / rɪˈkʌm bənt /


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Recumbent, he tosses a few handfuls of duff into a sifter fashioned from a cat litter box with its bottom cut out and replaced by a screen.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Recumbent Bikes - In contrast to a traditional bicycle on which the rider sits upright, recumbents put the rider in a reclined position that some people find more comfortable.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2021

Recumbent folds have horizontal or nearly horizontal axial planes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In July, Ruscio announced that the school would remove replicas of Confederate battle flags from a display near a statue called “The Recumbent Lee” on the main floor of the chapel.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2015

"Recumbent in the shade, as if asleep"—"Upon that cottage-bench reposed his limbs" induce us to lean to the opinion that he was but on the border of the Land of Nod.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde




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