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China has spent decades building up its dominance in global rare-earth mining and processing, giving Beijing significant leverage that it has flexed this year.

After a tense face-off the pair turned to the crowd but Usyk walked forward and flexed his muscles to block his rival from view before Dubois followed him.

For being a middle of the pack offense — ranked 18th overall in runs scored — the Nationals flexed their muscle with their young stars.

Vladimir Nabokov flexed on both of them by using em dashes between other em dashes.

Important people flexed by doing none of that — they showed off by not having computers on their desks at all.