refract
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Our legal institutions and the broader culture refract their policy values back at each other.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Their stories reflect and refract the themes of “On the Road” for today.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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
They refract it through their glasses so she cannot see, so she cannot identify the guilty ones.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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
Among other things, “Household Saints” refracts 25 years of the Cold War through a Mulberry Street lens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 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
The light refracts through the stained-glass windows into long fans of blue.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
In Will Self’s novel, the same scenes and characters are refracted in every chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
So lifting, the dynamic of lifting through asking how do things feel, refracted into the rest of my life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
In keeping with the Wooster way, he is both revealing and refracting, straddling the boundary between reality and its representation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
I wondered if there was a big fire somewhere, but in the morning Lori told me that the orange glow came from the air pollution refracting the light off the streets and buildings.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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