hinge
noun
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
have hinged
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present perfectof hinge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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However, the market’s more attractive valuations lately have hinged on Wall Street’s unwillingness to dial back earnings expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
But business has been slower than usual ahead of the Feb. 25 vote as candidates have hinged more campaigning on social media.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
Several semiconductor heavyweights have hinged further investment in the U.S. on the federal subsidies included in the bill.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
An election that would have hinged on Emanuel instead became remarkably wide open, with a diverse field of candidates jostling to respond to voter concerns about crime, schools, the city’s finances and public corruption.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2019
Curiously enough, the original German ideas of caricature appear to have hinged precisely upon the distortion of the countenance, since Fratze, the leading word for caricature, signifies originally a grimace.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss
