deform

Example Sentences

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The tyres need to be able to deform as they go over rocks and then ping back to their original shape.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

The team's new study builds on previous experiments from the early 2000s by geologists at the University of Minnesota, who studied how small chips of ice deform when physically stressed and compressed.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

At very high exposures, fluoride can also weaken and deform bones.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

Internal geological processes slowly deform the surfaces of Venus, Mars, Ganymede and Europa, as well as Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan