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“It’s so good that we have the place to ourselves,” she said as we rounded another bend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Step around, and potentially inside, awe-inspiring vehicles from the film, or come face-to-face with the Bene Gesserit, a group of priestesses who possess, among other things, the ability to bend the will of others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

"My father didn't attend and said he would never bend the knee to anyone. I guess that rubbed off on me," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

And as the hours passed, Roz came to a bend in the poison tide’s path.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The cluster's powerful gravity bends and distorts the light traveling from those background galaxies, creating a rare effect called strong gravitational lensing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

There is the ritual, the way a whole week bends toward the game and then releases.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

To locate dark matter, scientists measure how its gravity bends the light from galaxies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

If a CEO bends the rules, he added, “that sends a devastating message to the people inside the organization because it shows that, well, if he can do that, I can do that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Dad runs to the other side of the bed and bends over so close.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Just weeks later, he went down on bended knee at an Oxford ball.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

Me on bended knee, with a ring I'd emptied my bank account to buy.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022

As Lasso, Romney approaches Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — herself dressed as the club’s owner, Rebecca Welton — on bended knee.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

With no experience, Creason had to go to collections at UCLA, the Seaver Center and the Huntington, “on bended knee,” to learn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

“Lord Davos, if you are a lord, I know what your so-called king would have of me. Steel and silver and a bended knee.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

To explain this unexpected behavior, the researchers turned to topology, a mathematical field concerned with properties that remain unchanged when objects are continuously stretched, bent, or reshaped.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"One needle was bent in a 90-degree angle when it was removed," the filing states.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Tiangong Omni swivels its torso wildly from side to side while waving its bent arms in front of its face.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

I stood like that, bent at the waist, for what felt like hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was bent and rusted and looked ancient.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

In other words, you can be forever reliant on the universe’s mercy or merciless in bending it to fulfill your ambition.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

It often implies bending the rules, or stretching them to the limit, rather than breaking them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the future, piezoelectric diamond membranes could potentially be used in implantable medical devices as self-generating power sources or as sensors that detect bending and deformation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

I retrieved the ball and did as he said, bending my knees and reaching out toward the basket with both arms.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman