unbend
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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
“You unbend your forehead at last,” said Mr. Rivers.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
The plain had its usual aspect, but to him it appeared more beautiful, more tranquillizing, like a frowning face which unbends and smiles.
From The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
All at once, from being the plodding, hard-working engineer, with responsibility and thought in every feature, Telford unbended and relaxed, and became the merriest and drollest of the party.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles
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 Robert Taylor Conrad
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 Theodore Dreiser
Then he unbended, and admitted me to the body of the auditorium, where I was conducted to a coign of vantage in near proximity to members of the fair sex and galaxy of beauty.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
I had no desire to pry into M. Picot's secrets, but I could not help knowing that he had unbended to me because he was interested in the fur trade.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
The tournament has the unbent feel of a week-and-a-half-long summer camp.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
Though his mother, Ms. Giuliano, also looked haggard, she remained unbent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
Though there were wrinkles at the comers of her mouth and more around her eyes, she still stood tall, unbent, and handsome.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
And yet they’re powerfully redemptive, mostly through White’s unbending love for even his most screwed-up creations, which somehow makes us feel better about ourselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
He spent ten full minutes bending and unbending my knee.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
