twist

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Instead, the book offers a bitingly funny and occasionally heartbreaking twist on the classic Instagram-versus-reality story, and a space to address our own culpability within the safe confines of fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

When a golfer swings, the upper body and hips twist quickly in opposite directions to generate power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

It would turn out there was a reason no one ever saw the suspect right in front of them—and that the new twist in the case was just the beginning.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Abbott lifted Woakes into the building site, where a hotel is under construction, at mid-wicket, before the last twist of an engrossing day saw the last three wickets fall in the last two overs.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

And reaching across me he would yank a wire from its housing or twist a tiny tube from an assembly.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom