contortions
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In the end, his legal team came with little more than contortions and cartwheels, trying to twist Bianco’s overreach into existing law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
So many explanations and justifications, so many verbal contortions as he attempts to talk through his latest defeat.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
The contortions of so many travelers bending, crouching, and hopping alongside the metal detector lent comic flavor to the plane journey.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
Romero never made any contortions, always it was straight and pure and natural in line.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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