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“I want you to be able to bend down and tie your shoe without difficulty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 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 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

The lower surface stretches and bends around the dead cell, while the opposite side remains relatively unchanged.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 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

As the membrane bends more strongly, electrical charge polarization builds up around those grain boundaries.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

He bends down and catches the ball, throwing it to her.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

"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 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

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

While it bent there, the payments industry says the competition bill would lead to more changes that would ultimately harm consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

She was lying on her side in the street, her knees bent.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

“Under the right circumstances,” said Red, and she bent down and dug up some cold earth.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

He wanted to push the limits, even if it meant bending the rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Computer simulations helped predict how bending should influence the movement of electrons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Jonn’s eyes opened, and he looked up at the two worried faces bending over him.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda