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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

Now bend the paper into a cylinder without stretching or tearing it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

“We will never bow our head or bend at the knee.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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

On the way back down the hill, I rounded a bend and saw somebody waving at me, friendly-like.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

When the prediction was first made, however, measuring such an effect across bends only a few atoms wide was extremely challenging.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

He did some quick knee bends and ran around the tree just for the joy of the free movement.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Emhoff subsequently made known his unhappiness with the firm’s capitulation, though he’s stopped short of quitting — as some have urged — to protest its bended knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

About 20 miles south of Plymouth, across the Sagamore Bridge, is Cape Cod, “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” as Thoreau wrote in his book of hikes, “Cape Cod.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

She says in the show: “Here I am, coming to you, prime minister, on bended knee, for the sign-off, but I’m hoping that will be a formality.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

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

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

One large whooping voice spiraled over the heads of the bended forms.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

His squat thighs keep his legs bent for more of the pedal stroke, another wind-resistance advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Because of light refraction - light being bent by the atmosphere - there is still light for a time when the Sun is not directly visible.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Starship Troopers” was the Dutch director’s joke about how quickly the U.S. could slide into unwitting fascism, using author Robert Heinlein’s unironic authoritarian bent as the set-up to his punchline.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

He looked bent and worn as if every step was an effort.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

This is what the industry calls "misalignment" - broadly defined as when AI machines do not act in humanity's best interests, such as by bending the rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Advertisers are bending over backwards to fit “maxxing” into their marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Even now, Harbaugh made clear he wasn’t bending the rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Nansi was one of her favorite story topics—she’d tell me about the trickster god cutting deals, bending the rules, and weaving schemes as intricate as a spiderweb between tree branches.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer