Definitions
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- adjective having no curves
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Examples
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The cold creases of uncurving sheets, the greasy click of tumblers turning, Miranda's bony bare feet sliding blind on the icy wood floor.
Losing Found Things Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon and its tributaries; and it was one of these living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving itself like a bow, again attacked the diver.
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Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon and its tributaries; and it was one of these living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving itself like a bow, again attacked the diver.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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1 Xavier sat in his room, the uncurving walls wrapped around him like a prism.
Maybe Maybe brian warfield 2011
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