unbend
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“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022
Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018
As Charlie Price, the starchy young shoe factory heir who learns to unbend and open his mind under Lola’s tutelage, Andy Kelso is most charmingly awkward in the role created by Stark Sands.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015
At least a hundred years seemed to have passed before Shirley could bend and unbend her stubborn fingers well enough to hit each of the eight notes of the scale without disturbing its neighbor.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023
But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017
Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
"You and I are off for a jaunt in the country, Charles, and the sternest disciplinarian unbends during holiday time."
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
Louis, who always unbended to a merry jester, was showing his pictures to Killigrew, when they came to a painting of the Crucifixion, placed between portraits of the Pope and the "Roi Soleil" himself.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
From his father, Nehemiah Roby, who was for many years Master of the Grammar-School at Haigh, near Wigan, he inherited a good constitution and unbended principles of honour and integrity.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
"There have been pleadings, and revilings—tears, and curses— bended knees, and unbended arms."
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne
I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Then he unbended, and admitted me to the body of the auditorium, where I was conducted to a coign of vantage in near proximity to members of the fair sex and galaxy of beauty.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
Though his mother, Ms. Giuliano, also looked haggard, she remained unbent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
“Unbowed, unbent, unbroken — for Oberyn,” Ellaria solemnly says to the Sand Snakes before sending them on their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2015
Zero stopped moaning, and his body slowly unbent.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
She’s watchful, she’s contained, inhabiting the character’s resilience and giving her a core of unbending steel.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
Though she loves to present like any other, round-the-way gal: at 62, she remains remarkably regal — unyielding and unbending as one of the last striking figures of a pale Fox football team these days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
To several ships, application was made, but the officers aboard all of them were unbending, and the answer came again and again, “You must row on.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
