deform

Example Sentences

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Defensive wars don’t merely protect states, they also deform them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The tyres need to be able to deform as they go over rocks and then ping back to their original shape.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

When high loads are applied to superelastic materials they can deform to large strains which would result in a permanent strain in conventional materials without break.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Internal geological processes slowly deform the surfaces of Venus, Mars, Ganymede and Europa, as well as Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan