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"My father didn't attend and said he would never bend the knee to anyone. I guess that rubbed off on me," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The tool required farmworkers to bend down over rows of crops given its short length, a task they often had to do for hours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Rather than changing their energy in a simple, straight progression as the magnetic field increases, some Landau levels can bend back toward the Fermi level and cross it again.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

"We have to understand that we're heading for catastrophe if we don't bend the curves" of greenhouse gas emissions, Jouzel said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

I bend over to pick a few grains of sand from under my toes.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

There is the ritual, the way a whole week bends toward the game and then releases.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

To do it, Markovic’s team will look at how dark matter bends the light of hundreds of millions of galaxies to create maps of its structure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Earlier studies often examined gentler bends or relied on external pressure, making this subtle effect difficult to separate," Iyengar said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

But now, with the biting wind and the endless landscape of white, the walkway’s bends and length were more of an annoyance, and the fleeing group kept slipping on its curves.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Emhoff subsequently made known his unhappiness with the firm’s capitulation, though he’s stopped short of quitting — as some have urged — to protest its bended knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

"If I was Prime Minister, I would be coming along on my bended knees and asking to be allowed back in," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

His colleagues celebrated his candidacy by circulating an image of him on bended knee praying for divine guidance with other lawmakers on the House floor.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

Me on bended knee, with a ring I'd emptied my bank account to buy.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022

She did not love him any more now, would not let him come near her if he were to pray for it on bended knees.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“Starship Troopers” was the Dutch director’s joke about how quickly the U.S. could slide into unwitting fascism, using author Robert Heinlein’s unironic authoritarian bent as the set-up to his punchline.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Step one foot forward and lower your body until both knees are bent, ideally at a 90-degree angle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates their triumph roughly 2,500 years ago over a minister to the king bent on annihilating the empire’s Jews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

I stood up again and looked at the sea grass that bent itself over the rocky road.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

He wanted to push the limits, even if it meant bending the rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Computer simulations helped predict how bending should influence the movement of electrons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Even now, Harbaugh made clear he wasn’t bending the rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

A black-and-white squashed-skunk figure hugged the branches above, huddled in the safety of the tree, whose boughs were bending into a leafy cage around her.

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