refract
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Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Their stories reflect and refract the themes of “On the Road” for today.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
The same physics that makes light refract into patterns on the bottom of a swimming pool or causes stars to twinkle in the night sky also causes DISS.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
“We mourn her loss but it’s a comfort to know that her penetrating works will dazzle, shine and refract in the minds of readers for generations to come,” Farmer said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
They refract it through their glasses so she cannot see, so she cannot identify the guilty ones.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
To work around this, I decided to use a 'star filter' - a layer of glass attached to the front of the lens that refracts light in a specific way.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
In the retina of an animal's eye, there is a small pit called the fovea that refracts the light entering the eye.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
The water vapor refracts the intense glare of headlights back toward the driver in a way that actually decreases visibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
The light refracts through the stained-glass windows into long fans of blue.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
At the center of Ms. Pearsall’s book is the concept of freedom in its many forms, as envisioned and advanced by American revolutionaries but preceded, inspired and refracted by others caught up in the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Still, there’s also something kind of profound in contemplating 2000, even if it is refracted through this movie’s silly lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
At both ends of the alley the street lamps glowed through the murky air, refracted into mammoth balls of light.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Under these conditions, the particles are expected to influence how light travels, refracting it in a specific way and producing vacuum birefringence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
In my hands is a tall glass with a cool drink beaded with condensation that catches the sunlight, refracting it like a kaleidoscope.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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