contortion
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He’s known for using both sides of mirrors—both reflective and matte—to make a contortion of geometric forms that curve, arc, jut and ripple.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
This cellular contortion is a process called macropinocytosis.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
The new show will feature aerial contortion, foot juggling, modern clowns, and a 34.6-foot unicycle—and audience members will view the show from a curtain-less 360-degree stage.
From National Geographic • Sep. 26, 2023
He would stand in front of a mirror and speak lines from Yeats and Ralph Waldo Emerson, straining to avoid the contortion of his face muscles.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023
There was no clutter and contortion, no sense of always being under the shadow of something high and gloomy, as in Erhenrang; everything was simple, grandly conceived, and orderly.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing contortion
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