contortions

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American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

All of those candidate contortions bring to mind a line from Hamlet: To thine own self be true.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024

So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

They were going to have to answer the question with a straight yes or no, with none of the complex contortions.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

She went back to work, making calculations on her notepad, her face scrunching into all kinds of twists, strains, and contortions.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas