flexed
Example Sentences
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At a reported £17m for the pair, Celtic have flexed their fiscal muscle.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Except for when passengers, after taking turns at rigging, filed below deck to explore the ship’s white-oak skeleton, which flexed and creaked in the current—the ancient sounds of a seafaring world that’s all but lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Last year, it flexed its economic and diplomatic muscle, responding to Trump with tit-for-tat tariffs and restricting the export of rare earth minerals essential for advanced manufacturing.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
The world's most populous nation has flexed its spacefaring ambitions in the last decade with its space programme growing considerably, and rivalling the achievements of established powers at a much cheaper price tag.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
It was ridiculous and unfair, he thought, not to tell him, and he flexed his feet in his shoes.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
