recurve
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Which brings us back to the hero’s mythical recurve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The archery ranking rounds with the compound and recurve bows are being held this morning Tokyo time as well, setting up how the competition will unfold on later days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2021
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
She is now the world number one in the women's recurve category and a strong candidate for a medal in Tokyo.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2021
The inner line of flow is determined by drawing an imaginary line between the inner delta and the center of the innermost recurve or looping ridge.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory and pale green.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Leaves channelled, linear; spikes 3–5, on unequal often recurved peduncles, ovoid, chestnut-brown; bracts ciliate-fringed; sepals taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse capsule; seeds not appendaged.—Alpine summits of the White Mts. and far northward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Outer divisions of the perianth recurved, the inner erect; stigmas petal-like.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Branched and recurving jets were curiously associated with it.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
"Aow!" he yelled, recurving like a bow and putting his hands to his wound.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
Lips—The Southwest Wind The paths vary widely; from the Gulf storms moving northeast and West Indian hurricanes recurving on the southern coast, to the storms from Alberta and the west which move south and east.
From Wind and Weather by Alexander McAdie
Annual, 1–3° high; bracts narrowly oblong, their slender awned tips spreading or recurving; calyx-teeth slender, at length usually spreading; corolla white or pinkish, not spotted.—Neb. to Tex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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