refract

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 director, who used the film as a way to refract a personal experience with grief, saw Bill as a man who was slowly beginning to erupt emotionally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

To work around this, I decided to use a 'star filter' - a layer of glass attached to the front of the lens that refracts light in a specific way.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

The monitor plastic refracts light so that you can simultaneously see the front and side of any subject that’s placed behind it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Sunlight refracts through it and casts slivers of rainbows across the floor.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

The French come closest to a grand national idea—liberté, egalité, fraternité, although this is refracted through repeated failures to convert those principles into stable governance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, ‘Desperately Seeking Something,’ traces the arc of American film over the last 45 years as refracted through her singular career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024

The bottom was of a pale, creamy stone over which undulating white-edged rectangles of refracted sunlight divided and overlapped.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Light travels at different speeds when passing through different media -- air, water, the human eye -- and those changes in speed correspond to the light refracting, or bending, at different angles.

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