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[twist] / twɪst /






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For one, the film has a major twist, which complicates its marketing and makes it difficult to tell audiences what it’s about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

There is, however, a twist – a confession Kris hasn't been brave enough to make until now.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But there’s a catch: The movie’s twist poses a major acting challenge for Cruise, and forces audiences to reconsider what they’ve seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

In a cruel twist, a phenomenon that can inundate the Eastern U.S. can fuel heat, fire, and drought elsewhere.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

I pressed my nose close to the plastic case and studied the jelly donut and the twist with chocolate frosting.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

But for a few twists of fate, she could be any of us.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

But the Guardian's deputy music editor Laura Snapes says it's not just fans who can benefit from these twists.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"One way to picture it is that the current "twists" the phase of the coherent quantum state of the superconductor, rather like winding a spring," explains Eryin Wang, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

The plot exists on twists, but if there’s anything missing from “Verity,” it’s the backstory that might inform Verity’s calculated machinations or Lowen’s striving to fill her personal void.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

She twists the caps off both bottles and puts one on the table in front of me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

If this quantum state is twisted too far, it becomes unstable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Plaques are abnormal deposits of a protein called amyloid beta that accumulate between brain cells, while tangles are twisted forms of the tau protein that develop inside neurons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The meal felt, in a twisted way, cathartic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The various inversions will include a barrel roll, a zero-g roll and an overbanked stall turn, hinting at a heavily twisted track that will create drifts and swinging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The rat’s expression was twisted into an incredulous scowl.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Many historians and academics accuse him of twisting history to fit his agenda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Raman effortlessly turned the mayor’s rhetorical traps around like Bugs Bunny twisting Elmer Fudd’s rifle right in his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

As the twisting increases, the magnetic configuration becomes both highly energetic and unstable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

It looked at Anya, head twisting side to side.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack




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