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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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Staying at the Arthur Blair is meant to feel like entering a time warp.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

Investigators found that when those initial slab-to-column connections failed, the pool deck’s concrete slab began to silently warp and fracture over a 21-day period, progressively shifting immense weight to adjacent columns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 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

But the total energy density in “empty” space far away from the plates must be zero, because otherwise the energy density would warp the space and it would not be almost flat.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Alison remembers her mother collecting melted bottles and warped pans left by the Bel-Air fire that tore through Laurel Canyon shortly before the family relocated there.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

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

"Even the idea of what is attractive and what is unattractive is becoming warped," he says.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

It was no longer a prison, but a home where people who had been warped by this philosophy of hate and force could come to learn another way.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

A three-part podcast series about how the rise of AI-generated content is warping our sense of what is real, and the dangers that presents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 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

"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

He’d go first to John Hancock From where he sat he could see that a great ship was slowly warping in—no coaster this, no mere sugar boat from the Sugar Isles.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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