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“But the notion of “cline,” or gradual, imperceptible shifts from one state to another, which is preserved in “incline” and “decline” (but not “upcline,” which is therefore necessarily a neologism—or, for that matter, other ways things might “cline”) fits the thinking in terms of ever more discernable and discrete thresholds I’m trying to encourage here, and “upcline” seems a way of “resisting” the more passive “incline” and catastrophic “decline.””

— Adam Katz, Idiomclining · Jan 01, 2026 · Bouvard Substack