refracted
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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
Every subsequent loss is refracted through that lens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
On the opening “Destination,” a winding and refracted character study, swooning strings trace the singer’s own sense of wonder, as she describes a fellow musician whose life serves as a mirror to her own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024
It shows that in forming a rainbow each ray from the sun is twice refracted and twice reflected as it passes through a drop of water before reaching the eye.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
