contortions

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American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Many phrases have peppered this past year of diplomatic contortions over how best to deal with the US's unpredictable president and commander-in-chief.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

All of those candidate contortions bring to mind a line from Hamlet: To thine own self be true.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024

So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene; indeed, you have to perform rather bizarre experimental contortions to uncover the idea of discrete particles of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee