contortions

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Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

So many explanations and justifications, so many verbal contortions as he attempts to talk through his latest defeat.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

Like any world-class gymnast, Jordan Chiles is familiar with contortions and flips.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

It was made of string, but it had more contortions, ins and outs, twists and turns and dips and doodles than the brain of Albert Einstein himself.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli