flexes

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Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. Deborah Copaken

As when a tigress hears the noise of the hunters, she bristles into her stripes and shakes off the sloth of sleep; athirst for battle she loosens her jaws and flexes her claws, then rushes upon the troop and carries in her mouth a breathing man, food for her bloody young. Statius

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are. Simon Winchester

A new proxy war is brewing in the Middle East today as Turkey flexes its muscles by backing Azerbaijan’s offensive against Armenian separatists – amid heavy fighting which has left at least 39 people dead. Source: Internet

Except for supporting the arch, it plantar flexes the little toe and also acts as an abductor. Source: Internet

In the non-weight-bearing leg, it plantar flexes the toes and foot and supinates. Source: Internet