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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

It was like watching someone’s personality warp into Mr. Hyde.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

Another is the Galaxy's outer warp, where the disk bends and could disrupt the conditions needed for star formation.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2026

I mention all of this because as soon as the bus started out of the car park, the wind coming through the open windows of the bus caused a peculiar warp in the sound.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

This matters not just because it warps truth and dishonors Good’s memory but because it makes improving the world impossible.

From Slate Jan. 9, 2026

Among the nuggets he shared: “There’s a lensing effect that expands things out and warps things out in a very interesting way,” which affects our view of the stars around it.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

How can a black boy be fearless in America, Bernadette asks, and answers: What follows for John is a warped upbringing of parental favoritism mixed with cruelly rigorous training.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Two load-bearing columns of a 37-story tower currently under construction, located near Grand Central Terminal, warped and several floors sagged on Tuesday.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 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

It opens with distorted drums and scratchy, warped synths before transforming, about a minute in, into a full-on cumbia track.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Its boards were warped beyond hope, and its roof slumped in the middle like a fallen pudding—and there wasn’t a house in Phippsburg where she’d rather live.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

"In addition, when the pulses travel near a very massive object, they may be deflected and experience time delays due to the warping of space-time, as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."

From Science Daily Feb. 17, 2026

T-glass is used in reinforcement layers under or around chips, and those layers help prevent the package from warping when processors heat up to around the boiling point of water.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 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

The sides were braced to keep from warping.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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