rubber band

Example Sentences

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But sometimes a disturbance can cause the polar vortex to stretch like a rubber band.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

After that, it would begin to shrink, eventually collapsing back into a single point, much like a stretched rubber band snapping back.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

They offer what I call a “snapback” hypothesis for why small caps should now outperform: Large caps’ outperformance is stretched so thin it’s like a rubber band — ready to snap back.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

Likewise, multiplying by one-half is like relaxing the rubber band a bit: the tick mark at two is now at one, and the tick mark at three winds up at one and a half.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife