straighten

“A lot of us, our hope is that eventually, history will straighten this all out and say, no, Gloria came in a little later, and her very loyal supporters have backtracked that history.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

“If there are, we’ll have to straighten it out, but I don’t think there’s too many significant differences,” Trump said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Or could the head of the country's supreme audit institution, another Socialist named Pierre Moscovici, help straighten the country's finances?

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

Her forfeit was to straighten her mop of curly hair for the team's evening meal.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

Mom started acting like she really needed to straighten one of the pictures on Chess’s wall, above his bed.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

They then performed leg extensions, an exercise in which a person sits and straightens the lower legs against resistance to lift a weight.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

Joon straightens up, wiping the tears from his face, looking around for that corner of sky.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

A section of the River Kemp, in south Shropshire, had been straightened by landowners in the 1800s, disconnecting it from its natural floodplain and reducing biodiversity.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

A very kind woman working behind the desk straightened me out: I was being too literal.

From Slate ● Dec. 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

I straightened my spine and smoothed my blue cotton frock.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

His grand goal was to reduce flooding, ease navigation and expand commercial shipping capacity by straightening the river’s course and shortening the distance between Basel and Bonn by 50 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Over the weekend a Xinhua report on Li Qiang's visit said that engineers would conduct "straightening" work and "divert water through tunnels" to build five cascading power stations.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

Together, they launched Altadena Girls to gather donations including beauty and hair products — fragrances, makeup, pimple patches, straightening tools and diffusers — and new clothing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

Instead he saw Gebu, just straightening from his inspection of the finisher’s progress on a limestone slab.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw