contorted

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They have contorted themselves to suit his often-changing dictates and have scaled back their ambitions repeatedly to stay within his red lines, but they have so far come away empty-handed on their biggest priorities.

From New York Times

They froze in position intermittently, like contorted statuary, courtesy of choreographer Aletta Collins.

From Washington Post

Justice Alito et al. could have been more forthright presenting the long, “deep roots” of the chattel history of women than their contorted and tainted history of abortion rights in the U.S.

From Seattle Times

“As a gay man who contorted himself into defending homophobes,” he writes, “I am more than capable of inhabiting the mind of the enabler.”

From New York Times

In a sprawling and contorted new district that wraps around Springfield, Ill., two Republican incumbents, Representatives Rodney Davis and Mary Miller, were at odds.

From New York Times