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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

“We will never bow our head or bend at the knee.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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

Neiden says many attendees try to break the show itself, to push back and see how far its narrative can bend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I bend down and pick up a stone from the gravelly path.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

They also account for how the changing weight of water and ice bends Earth's crust, which means the ground stations themselves move slightly as the surface beneath them shifts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 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

The Treasury rejects the idea that any of this reaches for a new power or bends monetary policy to the government’s funding needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Helena comes in to return the rinsed-out bucket, and Max bends down automatically, letting her ruffle his long hair and then scratch all through his beard and he makes noises like a well-petted dog.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

About 20 miles south of Plymouth, across the Sagamore Bridge, is Cape Cod, “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” as Thoreau wrote in his book of hikes, “Cape Cod.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

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

O’Connell: They did not come to us on bended knee, and I respect that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

“On bended knee you apologized. And you were sincere. We worked it out.”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

"One needle was bent in a 90-degree angle when it was removed," the filing states.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

When we came to the end of the row, we saw Dad up in the lot, bent over the horse trough.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

In the future, piezoelectric diamond membranes could potentially be used in implantable medical devices as self-generating power sources or as sensors that detect bending and deformation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In performance, there is a great deal of gender bending or borrowing that can occur.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin