deformed

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When many nucleons participate in these coordinated transitions, the nucleus becomes strongly deformed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

More than a dozen countries took part in the weeks-long search for the vessel, which was eventually located a year later by a private British marine robotics firm, its hull dented and deformed.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The scorching heat melted the glass awards her daughter had received for her theater performances, leaving behind deformed globs of crystal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025

The fog blew through the faceless vagueness of its head, yet it was shaped like a man, only deformed and changing, like a man’s shadow.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin