bend

Under sufficiently high temperatures and pressures, solid rock can gradually bend, stretch, and change its structure rather than simply breaking apart.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

If you have a bigger bend "it means you need a slightly thicker pillow than someone who's got a very flat back," says McCarthy.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Beijing’s policy advisers expect Xi to use the summit, in part, to test how far Washington will bend on the issue that matters most to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I glued my eyes to the bend and held my breath.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Being stuck, she instead bends the residents to her will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

As the membrane bends more strongly, electrical charge polarization builds up around those grain boundaries.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

By looking at how dark matter’s gravity bends the light of galaxies, Roman will be able to measure this clumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Ronan bends over and places it back in the water as if it could break.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

"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

Her role was captured during a now-famous moment in the West Wing of the White House, when the Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, got down on bended knee pleading for Ms. Pelosi’s help.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023

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

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022

With no experience, Creason had to go to collections at UCLA, the Seaver Center and the Huntington, “on bended knee,” to learn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

A blushing queen of little more than twenty summers on her throne, and the whole flame-lit hall filling with noble knights on bended knee.

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

It bent over, clamped the cord with its pincers and tucked the cord along a shelf to clear a path.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

To explain this unexpected behavior, the researchers turned to topology, a mathematical field concerned with properties that remain unchanged when objects are continuously stretched, bent, or reshaped.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

While it bent there, the payments industry says the competition bill would lead to more changes that would ultimately harm consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Tiangong Omni swivels its torso wildly from side to side while waving its bent arms in front of its face.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

He bent his good eye toward the floor.

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

In other words, you can be forever reliant on the universe’s mercy or merciless in bending it to fulfill your ambition.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

This is what the industry calls "misalignment" - broadly defined as when AI machines do not act in humanity's best interests, such as by bending the rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

He waved his whole body back and forth in place, like a round little willow tree bending in a gentle breeze.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen