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

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

Now, it is helping the company straighten up its balance sheet—and getting its hands on a major business in return.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

"Can y'all come straighten it up over here? It's not looking luxurious," Sean "Diddy" Combs says in a voice note to his personal assistants as R&B music mellows in the background.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

Lem Harvey didn’t smile, or straighten, or show any pleasure.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

He bends down to retrieve it, and when he straightens and offers it to her, she seems surprised to see that he is smiling at her.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

He played sensibly, taking 80 balls over his 58, until he was bowled by a wicked delivery from Foulkes that angled in, then straightened.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

When his Part D drug plan declined to cover one of his medications, the office staff called the insurance company and got it straightened out, saving him time and frustration.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2025

She flung the gum in the stove and resumed her stance, straightened her skirts, and folded her hands before her.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

"Expansion and straightening cause water to drain away into the North Sea and Baltic Sea even faster, rather than being retained in the surrounding area."

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

West of Hoover Street, the grid reorients itself, straightening into an American-style street grid.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

Instead he faced into the corner, and busied himself straightening his jacket and arranging his tie.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan