shape
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Once the dough is cut, regular Goldfish contract, snapping back into the classic, plump fish shape before baking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
To the company’s credit, Intel is in better shape than it was two years ago, Goldberg noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
“It feels like something entirely new this time and definitely unplanned,” McGee said of the work taking shape at the Deitch show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Understanding these processes could improve scientific models of how shock waves transfer energy, heat particles, and shape environments across the universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The roof was so warped and waterlogged it had assumed the shape of a soggy leaf.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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As fans watched 'chess-like' matches, successful coaches looked to keep lots of the ball, setting their team up in predictable and symmetrical shapes with fixed player roles, such as touchline wingers or inverted full-backs.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The documentary angle, of course, is this great director probing the ethics in his own vocation as an intrusive force, one that shapes lives, emotions and, in this case, the weight of a genuine tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
In this one problem, Hassabis saw an opportunity to find solutions to a whole lot more, since predicting the shapes of proteins—“unbelievably exquisite things,” he calls them—held the promise of understanding diseases and curing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
You could begin to see the shapes of human heads between here and the flames.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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There is limited space, after all, on a small island shaped like a teddy bear with arms extended to the Atlantic and to the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
While ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ defined his Hollywood career, Patrick Stewart’s classical training shaped acclaimed stage work, including ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Macbeth’ and collaborations with Ian McKellen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
ETH has shaped a great deal of research over the past three decades.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The further out you go, the cheaper the oil gets, a price curve shaped like a sled run.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
The gaslight shone upon the heavy, leonine lines of his features—a mane of sandy-brown hair, eyes the piercing blue of gas flames, a firm mouth shaped around the stem of a briar pipe.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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And Stewart’s shaping of the character ennobled television in ways cosmic and small.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
And that cycle is shaping up to be so large as to dwarf those that came before it, by his calculations.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Paturi: These breakthroughs extend the frontier of research, but I believe shaping that frontier and moving it forward remain within human capacity and creativity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
European stock indexes were mixed at open as the earnings season gathered pace, with single-stock stories shaping indexes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Millions of women are looking to this Legislature to give them a voice and share in shaping the destiny of the Republic.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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