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Sometimes the best solution isn’t persuading someone to change their mind — it’s realizing you don’t need them to bend to your will.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

In other insects, it helps form durable structures such as wing hinges and tendons that must bend repeatedly without wearing out.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

That the arc of the moral universe must bend toward justice is already a daily practice for so many Americans.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

“The player mustn’t move, bend or break any growing or attached natural object,” Moir said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

At every bend in the trail, he would stop and peek around it before going on.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The molecule then quickly bends out of its normally flat structure.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

CAMBRIDGE, England—Every summer, students here line up in dozens of boats, wait for a cannon to fire, then pelt around the narrow bends of the River Cam trying to smash the crew in front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Steep ascents, hairpin bends and stretches of unpaved road have added to the difficulties facing this tourist town, whose visitors have unsurprisingly stopped visiting while fish sales have stalled.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

In the lower tier of London Stadium, all adult tickets we saw were £95 - or £65 with an obstructed view - on the back straight and two bends.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

She bends down and rummages in one of the cupboards behind her desk until she pulls out a bag of pretzels.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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

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

It was a moment that did not include the offering of a ring on bended knee.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

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

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 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

But raise the slightly bent bonnet to look underneath, and it's a different story.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Channeling my inner Katniss, I took a “power stance:” shoulders back, legs slightly bent, bow cradled in my upper body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Slowly, slowly, he bent his right leg and found the next· foothold, about a forearm higher than the .one he’d stepped onto with his left.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

In lieu of engaging in objective analysis, the discipline is shaping, even bending, the truth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The producers delighted in bending and breaking rules of the sci-fi genre throughout the series, but they also shook up one of the most conventional elements of any TV show: the opening title sequence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

And he wants the world to know that it was all achieved without bending his knee to the US or engaging with the South.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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