refract
Example Sentences
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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
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
Unlike the shallow foveae found in human eyes, bird eyes have deep central foveae, which refract the incoming light to a large extent.
From Science Daily • May 30, 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
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