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Discover Ludwig"bend upward" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a physical movement (e.g. "The cat bent its tail upward as a sign of contentment"), or to a metaphorical movement (e.g. "As the economy recovered, investments began to bend upward").
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If the terminal shoot is removed, laterals grow out and topmost lateral branches bend upward.
The hands lacked the wrist-stabilizing features and long metacarpals of knuckle-walking apes; the wrist could bend upward, and the fingers were long.
Sound waves traveling downward and moving obliquely to the water layers will bend upward when the speed of sound increases with depth and downward when the speed decreases with depth.
The mesoflap system employs a set of small flaps over a cavity, whereby the flaps downstream of the interaction bend downward aeroelastically to bleed the flow and the upstream flaps bend upward to re-inject this same mass flow upstream.
In all three cases, the bands bend upward.
As we move from left to right, the curves bend upward, and at the far right, they can bend up steeply.
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A neutral wrist is firm and straight, not bent upward or downward.
But then comes the chorus, where every line bends upward in both pitch and volume.
Often the superficial sedimentary layers are bent upward close to the WAF.
With the sediments removed, the lightened crust bent upward, stretching the upper layers enough to loosen the ancient faults.
In the most common type, called talipes equinovarus, the heel bends upward and the front part of the foot is turned inward and bent toward the heel.
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