refract
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Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Their stories reflect and refract the themes of “On the Road” for today.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
The same physics that makes light refract into patterns on the bottom of a swimming pool or causes stars to twinkle in the night sky also causes DISS.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
The director, who used the film as a way to refract a personal experience with grief, saw Bill as a man who was slowly beginning to erupt emotionally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
They refract it through their glasses so she cannot see, so she cannot identify the guilty ones.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
“Brat” was the critical and commercial peak of Charli’s career, and the academy rewarded her up and down the program, with a second-highest seven nominations for a messy meta-rave about how fame refracts femininity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
In the retina of an animal's eye, there is a small pit called the fovea that refracts the light entering the eye.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
Among other things, “Household Saints” refracts 25 years of the Cold War through a Mulberry Street lens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Sunlight refracts through it and casts slivers of rainbows across the floor.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
In Will Self’s novel, the same scenes and characters are refracted in every chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, ‘Desperately Seeking Something,’ traces the arc of American film over the last 45 years as refracted through her singular career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
It shows that in forming a rainbow each ray from the sun is twice refracted and twice reflected as it passes through a drop of water before reaching the eye.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Under these conditions, the particles are expected to influence how light travels, refracting it in a specific way and producing vacuum birefringence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
It caught the light in the room, reflecting it, refracting it, but never bending light into the heart of its dark core.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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