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bend

[bend] / bɛnd /




VERB
persuade; influence
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Visitors walking around the bend of the center’s second-floor gallery can peek inside the payload bay, which was used to transport cargo like satellites into space.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

The market “learned that demand could bend faster than expected,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

Alphabet raises $80 billion, index funds bend their rules for AI, and Spain’s unemployment rate is way down.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

"Because of their enormous mass and compact size, they strongly bend passing light. Starlight from the same host galaxy can be focused into extraordinarily bright images, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing."

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

They moved into upward dog, shifting their bodies down to the floor and pushing up on their hands in a kind of back bend.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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