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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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“Let’s put an AI commission on warp speed, and figure out what we’re going to do to sensibly regulate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Staying at the Arthur Blair is meant to feel like entering a time warp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But the hearing wasn’t the only recent time warp.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Investigators found that when those initial slab-to-column connections failed, the pool deck’s concrete slab began to silently warp and fracture over a 21-day period, progressively shifting immense weight to adjacent columns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Its tight, even grain makes it strong but flexible, easy to bend yet disinclined to twist, warp, or cup.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

He does not seem to think about the jobs it will destroy, the way it is poisoning creativity or education, the way it warps our shared sense of reality.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

All of these pieces have dramatic warps, waves, marbling and imperfections that make them unique and add to their beauty and history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

This warps market incentives, discourages fair competition, and introduces long-term risk to private capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

At its core, she explains, lying is "telling a story with the intention to deceive people" and that warps reality in a powerful way which she warns can ultimately be damaging.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

We’d learned about astronomy: stuff like gravity, sound waves, and space warps.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Opening the debate, Swinney said the so-called "manosphere" and extreme pornography had "warped views and attitudes in disturbing and profoundly harmful ways".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

But Wright’s decision shows that college athletes’ ability to earn money has completely warped their traditional financial blueprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

This effectively "warped time" for brain development, which was "super cool", she added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Everything from eating out to kids’ extracurricular activities has been warped by the wealthy’s ability to spend regardless of the price, said Brian Eder, managing partner and private wealth advisor at OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026

Not the warped wood on its own but a spell that made it so.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

In this special three-part podcast, “AI and the Blurring of Reality,” Wall Street Journal personal-technology columnist Nicole Nguyen explores the ways that artificial intelligence is warping our understanding of what is real.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime, with over 90 percent of its parts sourced from discarded vehicle pieces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

The couple were faced with setbacks while building the home with rain water dripping through tarpaulin covering the structure that resulted in warping of the boards.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

Amazingly, the hippie, whose name was Leo, was quite angry that I didn’t spend more time carving mandolin struts or warping boards or whatever it was I was supposed to be doing up there.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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