contort
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You don’t need to contort yourself to fit into someone else’s life, especially if that life doesn’t align with who you are or what you value.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is a book of endless storytelling, as characters contort themselves to please the regime’s shifting narratives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
He has the preternatural ability to contort his facial expressions ever so slightly, going from innocent to cold and malevolent and back again in a split second.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
So there’s a couple ways he was able to contort his body, flips that he was able to do that only he was able to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Christina looks away, and at first I think she is bashful, but then I see her face contort like he slapped her instead of complimented her.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nevertheless, a cheeky portion of blue-green paint contorts itself into a standing position in the corner, fighting against the weight that urges the rest of the work Earthward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
At one point, a dancer contorts herself as she carries Particle, tucked in a birdcage, across a room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
He contorts in a very peaceful, very holy way I think it’s the first chance in a long time the father’s had to say thank you.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
But outrage soon spread online, with screen-grabs and an AI video that contorted Thomas’s face into a grin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
So, where did a baseball-loving future MLB star growing up in Sherman Oaks come to such a contorted conclusion?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Acquiring the semiautonomous Danish territory would further elevate his claims to greatness and the status of legend in his own contorted reality.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
It has contorted statutory language to stop immigrants from obtaining effective relief against wrongful detention and deportation.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Those people are some of Burning Man’s worst PR reps, contorting the meaning of its principles to suit themselves.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
I have watched videos of people doing cold plunges, giving themselves ear massages and contorting themselves into impossible stretches all in the name of fixing dysregulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Images of Vance have sprouted up on X contorting his face into that of, well, everything you can imagine.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
His gift for contorting himself through the air and landing on the designated spot has made him one of the most sought-after stuntmen.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
I look around a bit and a shiver runs over my entire body, contorting me.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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