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“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018

Taking small steps Mr. Hübbe has begun to unbend certain traditions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

My joints were frozen with terror — I couldn’t unbend my fingers to drop it.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023

But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017

Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010

"You and I are off for a jaunt in the country, Charles, and the sternest disciplinarian unbends during holiday time."

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis

I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"There have been pleadings, and revilings—tears, and curses— bended knees, and unbended arms."

From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson

From his father, Nehemiah Roby, who was for many years Master of the Grammar-School at Haigh, near Wigan, he inherited a good constitution and unbended principles of honour and integrity.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

The unbended sail Flaps idly in the passing wind; And dark below, each dull canal Is stagnant as its owner's mind!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Gerhardt had unbended so gradually that his interest was not even yet clearly discernible, but he had a distinct feeling of kindliness toward her.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023

After Brown had enforced sufficient deference, he unbent a bit.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

"It's been run into by cars and bent and unbent, but it keeps going."

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2011

She bent and unbent her neck exactly how Dad does after a very long drive.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

It set a template for the rest of her political career: unbending, strong, determined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

The sun traveled farther westward; sage and cholla shadows shifted slightly; some ants crawled up their pant legs “1 guess we might as well begin,” Snuffy said, slowly unbending his aching limbs, arising.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols