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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hinges around" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something is the central, essential aspect or point of a situation or idea. It is often used to describe an important part of a story or argument. Example: The entire plot of the novel hinges around the character's search for her missing father. In this sentence, "hinges around" indicates that finding the missing father is the key element of the story and everything else revolves around it.
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/ It hinges around itself".
Given that the plot hinges around the male protagonist's penectomy fetish, you'd think he'd have bothered to do his research.
The small but powerful Gorky show at the uptown Gagosian Gallery hinges around the sombre "Night-time, Enigma and Nostalgia" (1933-34) and related drawings.
An orthotropic constitutive model of CCMs is constructed using the strain energy method, which uses the deformation of hinges around holes and rotation of links.
An in-plane constitutive CCM model is constructed using the strain energy method, which uses the deformation of hinges around holes and the rotation of links.
One episode hinges around Louie hanging out with the ex-fiancé of a sister we've never heard about (and might not hear about ever again).
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Meanwhile, smart stalker thriller The Gift was shown from the point of view of Rebecca Hall's would-be mother Robyn, an intelligent, intuitive character whose story arc hinged around much more than her fertility as she probed the mysterious past of her husband and his creepy schoolmate.
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has said their European Challenge Cup semi-final defeat at Gloucester "hinged around the scrum".
For Stanley, pop culture hinged around Beano's, the biggest secondhand record shop in England until its closure in 2009.
Professor Richards's boot, hinged around the ankle, allowed flexibility but fell apart after about a month, he said.
There's one moment where we do this big hinge, where someone throws something at one of the guys, and we kind of hinged around superfast.
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