refract
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Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Their stories reflect and refract the themes of “On the Road” for today.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
The same physics that makes light refract into patterns on the bottom of a swimming pool or causes stars to twinkle in the night sky also causes DISS.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Wisp — alongside acts like trans artist Jane Remover or Singapore’s Yeule — refract decades-old templates through new lenses of experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
In the retina of an animal's eye, there is a small pit called the fovea that refracts the light entering the eye.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
The monitor plastic refracts light so that you can simultaneously see the front and side of any subject that’s placed behind it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
It is also known as a Bravais' arc, and is formed when sunlight enters horizontal ice crystals and refracts through a side prism face, which causes the upside-down effect.
From BBC ● May 29, 2023
Of course—he had forgotten that water refracts, bends light.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
The French come closest to a grand national idea—liberté, egalité, fraternité, although this is refracted through repeated failures to convert those principles into stable governance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, ‘Desperately Seeking Something,’ traces the arc of American film over the last 45 years as refracted through her singular career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
Eventually, the trapped sound was refracted back down to the ground, sometimes hundreds of miles away.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
Low-lying clouds and precipitation, they realized, were refracting echoes from the shoreline back to the radar, much as a glass lens bends the path of visible light.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2023
Light rippled along the blade, refracting into a rainbow.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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