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“I want people to feel, I want people to think, think with their heart, and I want them to maybe bend their mind a little bit. Everybody needs to keep an open mind these days.”

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

At the time, scientists questioned whether light traveled only as particles in straight lines or behaved as waves that could bend and spread.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, told the BBC that Putin was unlikely to bend.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Two supporting columns on the building’s 21st floor, which the developer said might not have been properly reinforced, buckled and steel beams began to bend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

I bend to grab my stick, noticing a slight grin on Colin’s face.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

"The jet stream ... bends northward and flows northward around Europe instead of crossing it. As a result, a heat dome emerges over Europe," Oltmanns told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

This is his magical Sunday where time bends, L.A. traffic doesn’t exist and bellies are never too full.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

When a massive object such as a neutron star passes in front of a more distant star, its gravity bends and magnifies the background star's light.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

He was lying on a wooden floor, about ten feet across, with nothing to hold on to as the truck sped around hairpin bends.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

“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

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

“I thank God on my bended knees that we did not make the uranium bomb,” said Hahn.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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

"Some caravan awnings came into grief, there were burst and bent poles and we had a gazebo that was upside down and in a very sorry shape," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The Dodgers bullpen bent but did not break, with the help of late-inning insurance runs from the offense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Catching hold of a tall cane growing on the bank, I bent it down and used it like a rope to let myself down to the bottom.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Folarin Balogun showed pace, power and then composure to take a touch inside the covering defender before bending the ball into the top corner with his left foot.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

Sometimes, he found himself subtly bending his playing to the sounds of the cityscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

A black-and-white squashed-skunk figure hugged the branches above, huddled in the safety of the tree, whose boughs were bending into a leafy cage around her.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman