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"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

Wu said he understands why Guinness might not bend, but believes TransitRuns should recognize his bike-assisted time, especially since the city bike he used is technically a form of public transportation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Softly bend your knees, while still remaining tall and upright.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Imagine bending a flexible ruler, except the bend is squeezed into a space smaller than a billionth of a meter," said Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, a former Rice doctoral student and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

They moved into upward dog, shifting their bodies down to the floor and pushing up on their hands in a kind of back bend.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Authorities said Garcia was speeding down River Road, a two-lane highway that bends with the river, when the road turned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

It was a total eclipse that let Arthur Eddington test Albert Einstein’s claim that gravity bends light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The molecule then quickly bends out of its normally flat structure.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

He bends down and catches the ball, throwing it to her.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

Just weeks later, he went down on bended knee at an Oxford ball.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022

As Lasso, Romney approaches Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — herself dressed as the club’s owner, Rebecca Welton — on bended knee.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

“I thank God on my bended knees that we did not make the uranium bomb,” said Hahn.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Fittingly, for a man so bent on proving himself the greatest of all time, Djokovic paired up with director Jason Hehir, best known for “The Last Dance,” the documentary about Michael Jordan and the Bulls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Tenor Martin Luther Clark was bent on erasing Don Ottavio’s usual wimpiness, sometimes to excess; Daniel Mobbs was insufficiently scary as the Commendatore, despite help from the trombones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

But raise the slightly bent bonnet to look underneath, and it's a different story.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The superintendent and the assistant bent over Flopears’s notebook.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Advertisers are bending over backwards to fit “maxxing” into their marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

In lieu of engaging in objective analysis, the discipline is shaping, even bending, the truth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Now he could almost see the bukshah pool and Star bending her head to drink.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda