refract
Example Sentences
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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
But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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