incline
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As the incline got steeper, I opened the companion app on my phone and pressed “Boost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The stress and emotional aftermath they’re each facing is a tightrope walk … with an incline.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
In other words, investors may find it a lot more difficult to keep up if the incline gets steeper and steeper.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
My legs are beginning to hurt though and there's that slight incline round the corner.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
She rode alongside the cemetery twice—up the slow and steady incline, around the back, and swoosh, down the trail on the far side, with its three bumps down.
From "George" by Alex Gino
Mr. Waterfield inclines toward Hobbes’s “they that have odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The same can be said of Pabst himself, whose monomaniacal devotion to his art inclines him to ugly compromises.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
Just a short distance away pilgrims were walking up the steep inclines of Slieve Patrick to the St Patrick monument.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
There are a couple of entr’actes in which the clown, teased by his former supervisor, inclines toward the Grinchy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Flo inclines her huge head toward the sky above.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The Federal Reserve would then more inclined to move toward higher interest rates, which could weigh on economic activity and consumer spending, Abuagla added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some fans might even call Black Flag Resynced a love letter to the original, though more cynical gamers may be inclined to call it a cash grab.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
“They are very inclined to take on tools for their children that are not traditional tools,” says Hoxby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
In his classic book “Innumeracy,” mathematician John Allen Paulos observed that people are inclined to think that 1 trillion and 1 billion are about as close together as 1 billion and 1 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
His head was still inclined to one side and his glance was oblique.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The young woman in the sepia-toned photograph curtsies gracefully, inclining her head and smiling sweetly at the camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
The sickening realization of the Titanic's imminent fate came when Jessop turned to say something to a fellow stewardess and saw that the "forward part" of the ship was inclining toward the dark ocean.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
She would like to see changes, inclining a Senedd creche, the introduction of job shares and an increase in the number of MSs to decrease workload.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021
Since then, the pair's paths have diverged, with Appleblim's housier releases inclining more towards the dancefloor, and Shackleton's series of Drawbar Organ EPs offering playful experimentalism.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2013
Floyd, with his sloping shoulders and inclining chin—Dick had thought he’d be too afraid.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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