refracted
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It’s enough to make a reader hanker for a volume devoted to the director’s long working relationship with Head or for a filmography refracted through the actresses he obsessed over and glorified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
These machines shoot UV light tens of thousands of times through drops of molten tin, which creates a plasma, and is then refracted through a series of specialised mirrors.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
So lifting, the dynamic of lifting through asking how do things feel, refracted into the rest of my life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
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
