refract

Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Apparently, a lot of folks feel seeing people in the real world is too taxing, and it's easier to refract your urge for connection to an app that offers only an inch-deep simulacrum.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

The same physics that makes light refract into patterns on the bottom of a swimming pool or causes stars to twinkle in the night sky also causes DISS.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

Wisp — alongside acts like trans artist Jane Remover or Singapore’s Yeule — refract decades-old templates through new lenses of experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

In the retina of an animal's eye, there is a small pit called the fovea that refracts the light entering the eye.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

It is also known as a Bravais' arc, and is formed when sunlight enters horizontal ice crystals and refracts through a side prism face, which causes the upside-down effect.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

With Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star acting in a French crime serial, Olivier Assayas’ series refracts his 1996 masterpiece through a dizzyingly playful prism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

The light refracts through the stained-glass windows into long fans of blue.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

What it also made clear is that Coachella is no longer a single cultural event but several overlapping ones divided across weekends, refracted through screens and increasingly calibrated for different audiences altogether.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

Horsebit details and other house codes surfaced throughout, refracted through Demna’s more pointed, urban lens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

These machines shoot UV light tens of thousands of times through drops of molten tin, which creates a plasma, and is then refracted through a series of specialised mirrors.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024

They could see their eyes reflected in it, refracted, grown ten times, goggling back at them.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

They number in the thousands, light striking the phalanx of lenses arrayed on a face in geometric pattern, the beams refracting through transparent mounds no wider than a hair.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Alight placed above the center of the tank shines through the water, refracting as it ripples.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth