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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
flinch .
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Examples
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Pasolini (who was murdered shortly after the movie's completion) structures this political allegory using Dante's Divine Comedy, and never flinches from the sequences of torture and madness, making the movie all the more disturbing.
Scary Movie Ten daj42 2009
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Schelling ultimately flinches from the most radical implications of his own anthropomorphisms, so that the alternative genealogy of desire to which I have so briefly referred here functions like a Kristevan genotext within the phenotext of the Freedom essay.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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He "flinches" when he hears his work called advocacy (I believe that he meant "wince" or "cringe" but, hey, who gets the big bucks for putting words together?); she countered by pointing out that he often directs readers to his favorite charities when riding his Sudan hobby - horse.
ON THE MEDIA Fawns Over Sweatshop-Loving Kristof Jeff Ballinger 2010
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He "flinches" when he hears his work called advocacy (I believe that he meant "wince" or "cringe" but, hey, who gets the big bucks for putting words together?); she countered by pointing out that he often directs readers to his favorite charities when riding his Sudan hobby - horse.
Jeff Ballinger: ON THE MEDIA Fawns Over Sweatshop-Loving Kristof 2010
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It's no mere coincidence that he "flinches" in other areas.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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He "flinches" when he hears his work called advocacy (I believe that he meant "wince" or "cringe" but, hey, who gets the big bucks for putting words together?); she countered by pointing out that he often directs readers to his favorite charities when riding his Sudan hobby - horse.
Jeff Ballinger: ON THE MEDIA Fawns Over Sweatshop-Loving Kristof 2009
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It's no mere coincidence that he "flinches" in other areas.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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In regards to and with regards to are quite common in spoken English but much less so in edited English, where their appearance is apt to provoke flinches and howls of outrage from precisionists – except, of course, where an elliptical with regards to indicates personal consideration:
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She flinches, and for a moment I see the sheen of tears in her eyes.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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We can eat our burritos in silence, staring at one another with eyebrows raised until someone flinches.
Scott Janssen: Chic-fil-A Ruined My Relationship Scott Janssen 2011
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