bend
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“We’re optimistic that new leadership can bend the curve on traffic, but remain realistic that direct competitors have also gotten noticeably sharper, and the planned initiatives will take time to bear fruit,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
Hours before he backed down, an ally of Infantino’s told the Financial Times that he would not bend, seeing the standoff as “a fight to the death.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The incident that injured Rees and Flintoff involved an attempt to drift the three-wheeled car around the airfield's "Chicago" bend, the document states.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Importantly what the prohibited action here is that the player mustn't move, bend or break any growing or attached natural object."
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The cow’s mouth doesn’t move, but its ears bend slightly.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Part of that attention is aimed at Burwell’s score, a masterpiece of electronic minimalism in which pitch bends and hard clashes create the dread and whiplash that make the film so tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
These kinds of investigations hint at a larger reality in the Ecuadorean province, where modern life bends around an ecosystem so fiercely safeguarded that wildlife effectively holds legal right of way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
As the tectonic plate bends near the subduction zone, fractures develop, allowing the magma to rise through the crust, much like liquid being squeezed from a sponge.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The back straight and bends are usually cheaper at major track meets because the view of races is regarded as worse than the home straight, where tickets can often run into hundreds of pounds.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Zarra’s opponent parries then touches the foil tip right above the heart; the foil bends like wire.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"If I was Prime Minister, I would be coming along on my bended knees and asking to be allowed back in," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
“She nuzzled up into my chest and sort of bended into me, and I was struck by how soft she was, especially the top of her head,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
Me on bended knee, with a ring I'd emptied my bank account to buy.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022
O’Connell: They did not come to us on bended knee, and I respect that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
“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
Tenor Martin Luther Clark was bent on erasing Don Ottavio’s usual wimpiness, sometimes to excess; Daniel Mobbs was insufficiently scary as the Commendatore, despite help from the trombones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Once it disgorged its haul, Al-Zaharnah, a burly, weary-looking 56-year-old, climbed over the detritus and bent low for a closer look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
This strategy of testing the law and institutions, then losing, and then revising and trying again until the barrier is broken or sufficiently bent to exploit, is not coincidental.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Anna, still bent over the nettles, turned her head.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
In lieu of engaging in objective analysis, the discipline is shaping, even bending, the truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Leandro Trossard got the assist, bending a perfect back-post cross from the end line to his waiting teammate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Trouble,” I mused, bending down to scratch Mr. Whiskers behind the ears.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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