straighten
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She says every effort thereafter to straighten things out met the runaround.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
It took a meeting with the inflation-slaying giant of a former Fed chair, Paul Volcker, to straighten him out.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
Should these innings be used to straighten out previously-successful relievers such as Treinen and Scott?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
“And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after this. And it won’t even be tough.”
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
Then Alice would stand up and straighten her dress and pat her hair and carry the note in both hands out in front of her as if it was news from God.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Word spreads that Sparks starter Kelsey Plum will be there soon and everyone straightens up.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The Mercator map is arguably the best for this purpose, because it straightens out spiraling rhumb lines, and that’s why it rose to dominance.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
He visibly straightens and says to Drummond, “Devour feculence,” establishing that this is how he naturally speaks.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
As William hears this news, his back straightens, his neck elongates, and his whole body seems to expand.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
A very kind woman working behind the desk straightened me out: I was being too literal.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025
Bigklit, formerly Indigo Vanity: That’s what a lot of people knew me for: the curly, big half-pink, half-black hair with my straightened bangs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Noting the long-standing tensions between North and South Korea, Trump said "we will see what we can do to get that all straightened out".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
“The tears that I have shed over this, the frustration, the hours on the phone, trying to get it straightened out,” said Reisen, who lives in the Philadelphia area.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
After I straightened out her team, I went over to the sled, which was teetering on the edge of the bluff.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
“It is a little more of the same, but it is going to be straightening out,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
As he arrived, straightening his tie, to be confirmed in the top job in central London 10 days ago, I asked him why he'd taken so long.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
We may all recoil in horror at “Mar-a-Lago face”—and you might be rolling your eyes at my foray into the world of butt-crack straightening.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
“We’re supposed to be bright and alert pupils with intelligent and witty repartee,” Cumberbatch says, straightening up with feigned attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
He bites his lip and then breaks into a big smile and looks up at the sky before straightening his back and taking a giant leap up onto the porch.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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