bends
Example Sentences
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“A tool in service of someone with a genuine vision that bends the tool to their will, rather than having themselves bent to the tool — that’s what creativity is about,” Fairey said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Nor, unfortunately, does it reflect Martin Luther King’s hopeful idea that history’s arc ultimately bends towards justice.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
This spurred Corning’s engineers to make their cables thinner, but also tougher, so they could withstand tight bends, says Claudio Mazzali, Corning’s head of research.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Instead, it bends into loops and forms distinct compartments within the cell nucleus.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
He was lying on a wooden floor, about ten feet across, with nothing to hold on to as the truck sped around hairpin bends.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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