bend
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Softly bend your knees, while still remaining tall and upright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Imagine bending a flexible ruler, except the bend is squeezed into a space smaller than a billionth of a meter," said Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, a former Rice doctoral student and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Great Britain's 40-year wait to win the men's 1500m title continued despite Jake Wightman and Jake Heyward leading on the final bend.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Zuckerberg in his Monday essay wrote of a world where “open-source” models allow anyone and everyone to harness AI’s power and bend it to their own purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mom tries not to scowl, but Maggie can see it starting to bend her face.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
When the prediction was first made, however, measuring such an effect across bends only a few atoms wide was extremely challenging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was a total eclipse that let Arthur Eddington test Albert Einstein’s claim that gravity bends light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Part of that attention is aimed at Burwell’s score, a masterpiece of electronic minimalism in which pitch bends and hard clashes create the dread and whiplash that make the film so tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the lower tier of London Stadium, all adult tickets we saw were £95 - or £65 with an obstructed view - on the back straight and two bends.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The candlelight catches and bends in the empty bottle as he places it on the table.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
About 20 miles south of Plymouth, across the Sagamore Bridge, is Cape Cod, “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” as Thoreau wrote in his book of hikes, “Cape Cod.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
She says in the show: “Here I am, coming to you, prime minister, on bended knee, for the sign-off, but I’m hoping that will be a formality.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
Just weeks later, he went down on bended knee at an Oxford ball.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
Me on bended knee, with a ring I'd emptied my bank account to buy.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022
One large whooping voice spiraled over the heads of the bended forms.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
“Right at the point where I put force on the pitch, the point where my arm is back and bent, something happened,” he told Sports Illustrated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates their triumph roughly 2,500 years ago over a minister to the king bent on annihilating the empire’s Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
But raise the slightly bent bonnet to look underneath, and it's a different story.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Catching hold of a tall cane growing on the bank, I bent it down and used it like a rope to let myself down to the bottom.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Advertisers are bending over backwards to fit “maxxing” into their marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Imagine bending a flexible ruler, except the bend is squeezed into a space smaller than a billionth of a meter," said Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, a former Rice doctoral student and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Even now, Harbaugh made clear he wasn’t bending the rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Then, bending close to his ear, she whispered, "Be brave, Dragon Hatcher. Nothing you love is ever really lost."
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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