- present tense form of bend (3rd person singular).
bends
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Appeared in the February 6, 2026, print edition as 'Vought Bends the Curve'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
North Wales Police traffic PC Anja Macleod lied to her sergeant that she was at Dyserth Bends, Denbighshire, looking for a disqualified driver.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2023
Rosie Carney released a full-length folkification of The Bends.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2020
Pawpaws grow abundantly on the Potomac River’s floodplains, not just along the Paw Paw Bends under which the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal folks tunneled.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018
“Captain Short comes in for a landing. She takes off her helmet. Bends down, presumably to pick up an acorn, and...there!”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Vocabulary lists containing bends
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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