contort
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You don’t need to contort yourself to fit into someone else’s life, especially if that life doesn’t align with who you are or what you value.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is a book of endless storytelling, as characters contort themselves to please the regime’s shifting narratives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
He has the preternatural ability to contort his facial expressions ever so slightly, going from innocent to cold and malevolent and back again in a split second.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
So there’s a couple ways he was able to contort his body, flips that he was able to do that only he was able to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
I grab my collar and try to contort my neck to see it.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Nevertheless, a cheeky portion of blue-green paint contorts itself into a standing position in the corner, fighting against the weight that urges the rest of the work Earthward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Like an ever-so-slight key change in the final chorus, “Mother Mary” gradually contorts the longer Sam and Mary talk.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
We can literally see it in the shape of the jet stream, which now regularly contorts into deeper waves than it did just a few decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
Throughout every production, Curry contorts his voice for each character Man, Mooncakes and Monet meet.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
At the mention of my name, Peeta’s face contorts in effort.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
But outrage soon spread online, with screen-grabs and an AI video that contorted Thomas’s face into a grin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
So, where did a baseball-loving future MLB star growing up in Sherman Oaks come to such a contorted conclusion?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
It has contorted statutory language to stop immigrants from obtaining effective relief against wrongful detention and deportation.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Yan jumped up — way up — into the air, contorting his legs into somewhat of a split.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
I have watched videos of people doing cold plunges, giving themselves ear massages and contorting themselves into impossible stretches all in the name of fixing dysregulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Images of Vance have sprouted up on X contorting his face into that of, well, everything you can imagine.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
In recent years, women have posted videos of their faces contorting in pain during an IUD removal or insertion to demonstrate how painful they are.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Luke held Jack-Jack at arm’s length as the boy twisted, contorting his body back and forth like a wild animal.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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