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“We’re optimistic that new leadership can bend the curve on traffic, but remain realistic that direct competitors have also gotten noticeably sharper, and the planned initiatives will take time to bear fruit,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

"When it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend their newsrooms to my views," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

“The player mustn’t move, bend or break any growing or attached natural object,” Moir said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

At the time, scientists questioned whether light traveled only as particles in straight lines or behaved as waves that could bend and spread.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

On the way back down the hill, I rounded a bend and saw somebody waving at me, friendly-like.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

CAMBRIDGE, England—Every summer, students here line up in dozens of boats, wait for a cannon to fire, then pelt around the narrow bends of the River Cam trying to smash the crew in front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

In the lower tier of London Stadium, all adult tickets we saw were £95 - or £65 with an obstructed view - on the back straight and two bends.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The pattern gets its name because the jet stream -- a current in the atmosphere that moves air and weather systems from west to east -- bends into a shape resembling the Greek letter.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

In others, it’s a dynamic field that bends and curves in response to gravity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

The trees have slight bends in their trunks, careful angles of their palm leaves.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Emhoff subsequently made known his unhappiness with the firm’s capitulation, though he’s stopped short of quitting — as some have urged — to protest its bended knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

She says in the show: “Here I am, coming to you, prime minister, on bended knee, for the sign-off, but I’m hoping that will be a formality.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

Just weeks later, he went down on bended knee at an Oxford ball.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

Me on bended knee, with a ring I'd emptied my bank account to buy.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022

After ’while, all the grapes that got smashed on Jimmy’s forehead started leaking down into his eyes so he bended over to wipe at ’em.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

It is all a bit schlocky — which can be fun, depending on your bent — but the increasingly elaborate machinations reveal something useful.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Angelakis, 62, is known as an ambitious, levelheaded and disciplined dealmaker with an entrepreneurial bent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Channeling my inner Katniss, I took a “power stance:” shoulders back, legs slightly bent, bow cradled in my upper body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

There was the high bench over which Father had bent for so many years, doing the delicate, painstaking work that was known as the finest in Holland.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The first was a quadratic trend analysis, which tests whether the temperature curve is bending upward over time rather than rising at a constant rate.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

In lieu of engaging in objective analysis, the discipline is shaping, even bending, the truth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Studio people were bending over backwards to make all these promises that would never happen in the past,” Lee said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Folarin Balogun showed pace, power and then composure to take a touch inside the covering defender before bending the ball into the top corner with his left foot.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Anya did the same, bending at the waist.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack