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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

When I recently watched both movies again, it was like falling into a musical comedy time warp.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

Another is the Galaxy's outer warp, where the disk bends and could disrupt the conditions needed for star formation.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2026

Assassination attempts can also warp how journalists cover a president’s opposition, and subdue how that opposition behaves.

From Slate Apr. 26, 2026

As soon as Sohrab saw the lettuce, he let me go and ran back inside, talking to his mom in Farsi at warp 9.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

This warps market incentives, discourages fair competition, and introduces long-term risk to private capital.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

At its core, she explains, lying is "telling a story with the intention to deceive people" and that warps reality in a powerful way which she warns can ultimately be damaging.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2026

This matters not just because it warps truth and dishonors Good’s memory but because it makes improving the world impossible.

From Slate Jan. 9, 2026

But the novel’s truest setting is an emotional one, anyway; Berman’s gift is for revealing the ways that attachment warps into envy, and how we rationalize or ignore those emotions even while they consume us.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2025

We’d learned about astronomy: stuff like gravity, sound waves, and space warps.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Two load-bearing columns of a 37-story tower currently under construction, located near Grand Central Terminal, warped and several floors sagged on Tuesday.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Everything from eating out to kids’ extracurricular activities has been warped by the wealthy’s ability to spend regardless of the price, said Brian Eder, managing partner and private wealth advisor at OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners.

From MarketWatch Jun. 13, 2026

In the system’s defense, she said, the lanai’s screen may have warped the computer’s vision.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

“All My Sons,” Miller’s breakthrough play about capitalism’s warped ethics in the guise of a domestic drama, just finished a successful run at Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

His worries were balanced by the feeling that the whole thing was nothing but a hoax—a joke being played by a weird old man with a warped sense of humor.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime, with over 90 percent of its parts sourced from discarded vehicle pieces.

From Barron's Feb. 26, 2026

T-glass is used in reinforcement layers under or around chips, and those layers help prevent the package from warping when processors heat up to around the boiling point of water.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 2026

In June, the Auschwitz Museum warned accounts like these were stealing its posts, processing them through AI models and often warping historical details or fabricating narratives and victims entirely.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2025

“This is what happens when you, politely speaking, piss off the spirits here,” Meieran explained, pointing to a bizarre 7-inch mound warping the hardwood floor in his office.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2024

Father built controls for the vertical rudders and the warping mechanism of the wing following the design of the Wrights.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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