straighten

When he promises her that he’ll straighten out his life, he sounds as desperate as all the other bad men who’ve tried those same pleas on him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The researchers identified four characteristics that can help determine whether a tilted tropical cyclone is likely to straighten vertically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“You want to straighten out your press,” Trump said before bringing the conversation to an end.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

After Wednesday’s column, readers emailed to straighten me out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

I straighten the brim of the new running hat I bought with Dad’s gift certificate, which is not suffocating my scalp, thank goodness, but it does keep riding down my forehead.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

“We are going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out,” Trump said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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

He straightens his shoulders and juts out his chin.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Instead of maintaining their curved shapes, the stems slowly straightened until they became nearly straight again.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

"If there is a problem, I will get it straightened out," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I’m going to be helping a certain air company get themselves straightened away,” he said, after he learned it has significant domestic operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

When she straightened up, her face was flush with a wide-eyed glow: “Oh my God!”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

She’s straightened her coat so much while she’s talked that it’s completely off center and just slides off her arm to the floor.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

To determine what caused this change, the team examined the structure of the wood that developed during the straightening process.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

For centuries, the UK has modified landscapes to move water off the land as quickly as possible by draining uplands and peatlands, straightening rivers and disconnecting rivers from floodplains.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Great effort went into straightening rivers to harness them for our use, but also into enabling agriculture by draining the wetlands."

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

“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

She fiddled with the strings of her racket, straightening them the way players do on TV.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English