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Under sufficiently high temperatures and pressures, solid rock can gradually bend, stretch, and change its structure rather than simply breaking apart.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Marchand’s left knee appeared to bend awkwardly when he hit the post and he had to be helped off the ice and to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

If you have a bigger bend "it means you need a slightly thicker pillow than someone who's got a very flat back," says McCarthy.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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 floor of the locker the only mess is mine: a broken bootlace, a hatpin, and a scrap of paper with handwritten text, which I bend to pick up.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

By looking at how dark matter’s gravity bends the light of galaxies, Roman will be able to measure this clumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Then it bends into an L-shape and points its tail at Ronan.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

His colleagues celebrated his candidacy by circulating an image of him on bended knee praying for divine guidance with other lawmakers on the House floor.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

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

O’Connell: They did not come to us on bended knee, and I respect that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

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

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

It bent over, clamped the cord with its pincers and tucked the cord along a shelf to clear a path.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

Once he even bent over so that he could get a better look at things.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

In that configuration, the gravity of the foreground black hole could have acted like a lens, bending light from the second jet behind it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Then a creak, as of a bending tree branch, followed by an “Ouch!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood