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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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But the hearing wasn’t the only recent time warp.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

That’s warp speed compared with how long it takes to turn nuclear-reactor blueprints into power plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

It was like watching someone’s personality warp into Mr. Hyde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

He does not seem to think about the jobs it will destroy, the way it is poisoning creativity or education, the way it warps our shared sense of reality.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

The main character’s epistolary obsession with a man named Dick warps into a kind of “performative philosophy,” an activity that perhaps all of Kraus’ novels are engaged in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Opening the debate, Swinney said the so-called "manosphere" and extreme pornography had "warped views and attitudes in disturbing and profoundly harmful ways".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I’m very assured that the warped mind of Katie Dippold will helm us into a giddy storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

This effectively "warped time" for brain development, which was "super cool", she added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“I did that yesterday, when I was a kid,” he sings over hectic guitar strums, and his trilling digital falsetto, warped to maximize irritation, makes clear that those days are far behind him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

She rubbed the cool pages against her cheeks, leaving behind tearstains that warped the covers.

From "George" by Alex Gino

The harsh realities of war are woven into the textures of everyday life, warping and fraying into something absurd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

He also lambasted people’s preoccupation with possessing money as warping their imaginations and blinding them to the existence of more fulfilling possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

The couple were faced with setbacks while building the home with rain water dripping through tarpaulin covering the structure that resulted in warping of the boards.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

All of Jonesy’s shark talk may be warping my brain.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell




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