contortions
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At Mennour, Dhewadi Hadjab captures the extremes of the body in motion through his highly realistic paintings that depict amateur dancers in mind-bending contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the end, his legal team came with little more than contortions and cartwheels, trying to twist Bianco’s overreach into existing law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The contortions of so many travelers bending, crouching, and hopping alongside the metal detector lent comic flavor to the plane journey.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
While watching the final round in the Bahamas, Woods described Scheffler's unconventional footwork as "the contortions he gets into" but could not hide his admiration for the quality and control of the champion's ball striking.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene; indeed, you have to perform rather bizarre experimental contortions to uncover the idea of discrete particles of inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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