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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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“Let’s put an AI commission on warp speed, and figure out what we’re going to do to sensibly regulate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The reason I’m so fascinated with a subject I find petrifying is that math has become proof of how AI can warp an entire field—and how fast it can happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

I long ardently for Activity for my Hands is Commissioned to Build & to wet & to warp & to bind.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

Mr. Lillard, on the money, plays an administrator infuriated by the warped behavior of his most popular students, but who has to face parents with chips on their shoulders and self-serving agendas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

Rick said, “I understand now why Phil Resch said what he said. He wasn’t being cynical; he had just learned too much. Going through this—I can’t blame him. It warped him.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

Riccio pretended not to notice Prosper's fierce warping glance.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke




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