straighten
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“A lot of us, our hope is that eventually, history will straighten this all out and say, no, Gloria came in a little later, and her very loyal supporters have backtracked that history.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Or could the head of the country's supreme audit institution, another Socialist named Pierre Moscovici, help straighten the country's finances?
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Now, it is helping the company straighten up its balance sheet—and getting its hands on a major business in return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
“You want to straighten out the budget?” he asked.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
One of my ears got bent and took forever to straighten out again.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
A microlens array first aligns and straightens the light from each laser.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026
The Mercator map is arguably the best for this purpose, because it straightens out spiraling rhumb lines, and that’s why it rose to dominance.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
He visibly straightens and says to Drummond, “Devour feculence,” establishing that this is how he naturally speaks.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
He straightens his shoulders and juts out his chin.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
“It’ll be back down once we get things straightened out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She's ready, she says, well, shortly after she's blow dried and straightened her hair.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
When she straightened up, her face was flush with a wide-eyed glow: “Oh my God!”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
A very kind woman working behind the desk straightened me out: I was being too literal.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025
Valley seemed to be sobbing now and she made a high-pitched noise that sounded like wheezing, but when she straightened up and Seven saw her face, she was not crying.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
"Great effort went into straightening rivers to harness them for our use, but also into enabling agriculture by draining the wetlands."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“It is a little more of the same, but it is going to be straightening out,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“We’re supposed to be bright and alert pupils with intelligent and witty repartee,” Cumberbatch says, straightening up with feigned attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
“I keep thinking: Maybe he will come back?” she said, straightening the papers.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
Mom pushed me ahead, straightening my tie with one hand around my neck.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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