bend
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The incident that injured Rees and Flintoff involved an attempt to drift the three-wheeled car around the airfield's "Chicago" bend, the document states.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“I want people to feel, I want people to think, think with their heart, and I want them to maybe bend their mind a little bit. Everybody needs to keep an open mind these days.”
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I've been in construction 21 years, and I've never seen a beam bend in half -- so this is super dangerous."
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Unlike Einstein's General Relativity, which describes spacetime as something that can bend or curve, Einstein-Cartan theory also allows spacetime to twist.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Lizzie was six or seven, and for weeks she ordered every adult she saw to bend down so she could search their head for hidden writing.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Steep ascents, hairpin bends and stretches of unpaved road have added to the difficulties facing this tourist town, whose visitors have unsurprisingly stopped visiting while fish sales have stalled.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
These kinds of investigations hint at a larger reality in the Ecuadorean province, where modern life bends around an ecosystem so fiercely safeguarded that wildlife effectively holds legal right of way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
This is his magical Sunday where time bends, L.A. traffic doesn’t exist and bellies are never too full.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
It bends incoming light and helps focus images onto the retina.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
He bends his legs, knees over his toes.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
A blushing queen of little more than twenty summers on her throne, and the whole flame-lit hall filling with noble knights on bended knee.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Once it disgorged its haul, Al-Zaharnah, a burly, weary-looking 56-year-old, climbed over the detritus and bent low for a closer look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
This strategy of testing the law and institutions, then losing, and then revising and trying again until the barrier is broken or sufficiently bent to exploit, is not coincidental.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
"Some caravan awnings came into grief, there were burst and bent poles and we had a gazebo that was upside down and in a very sorry shape," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
“No,” Elliot said shortly, and I bent over to look at the boots I had on.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The producers delighted in bending and breaking rules of the sci-fi genre throughout the series, but they also shook up one of the most conventional elements of any TV show: the opening title sequence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
For more than 20 years, Lionel Messi has been able to do anything he wants on a soccer pitch, bending the game to his will and conjuring otherworldly moves out of thin air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
"We would say it's glancing contact, it's not full studs on the leg, bending over the leg."
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
“It would be bending the rules, but not exactly breaking them.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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