refract

Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Their stories reflect and refract the themes of “On the Road” for today.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

Unlike the shallow foveae found in human eyes, bird eyes have deep central foveae, which refract the incoming light to a large extent.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

“We mourn her loss but it’s a comfort to know that her penetrating works will dazzle, shine and refract in the minds of readers for generations to come,” Farmer said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

They refract it through their glasses so she cannot see, so she cannot identify the guilty ones.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

In the retina of an animal's eye, there is a small pit called the fovea that refracts the light entering the eye.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

It is also known as a Bravais' arc, and is formed when sunlight enters horizontal ice crystals and refracts through a side prism face, which causes the upside-down effect.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

The water vapor refracts the intense glare of headlights back toward the driver in a way that actually decreases visibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023

Above his head, light refracts through the water tank, the symbol of the compound’s slow, pointless struggle.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

At the center of Ms. Pearsall’s book is the concept of freedom in its many forms, as envisioned and advanced by American revolutionaries but preceded, inspired and refracted by others caught up in the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

So lifting, the dynamic of lifting through asking how do things feel, refracted into the rest of my life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024

Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Under these conditions, the particles are expected to influence how light travels, refracting it in a specific way and producing vacuum birefringence.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson