refracted
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What it also made clear is that Coachella is no longer a single cultural event but several overlapping ones divided across weekends, refracted through screens and increasingly calibrated for different audiences altogether.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
In Will Self’s novel, the same scenes and characters are refracted in every chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
These machines shoot UV light tens of thousands of times through drops of molten tin, which creates a plasma, and is then refracted through a series of specialised mirrors.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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