bends

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“A tool in service of someone with a genuine vision that bends the tool to their will, rather than having themselves bent to the tool — that’s what creativity is about,” Fairey said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Nor, unfortunately, does it reflect Martin Luther King’s hopeful idea that history’s arc ultimately bends towards justice.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

The hospital "bends over backwards to make transplants happen to ensure that we say yes to every good donor organ", Papworth's clinical lead, Dr Steve Pettit, told File on Four Investigates.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Its gravitational pull bends the light traveling from the explosion toward us.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

At sharp bends in the road they stopped to tear down huts that were blocking the long trucks from making the turn.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin