twist
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First, it’s an old-fashioned love story with a fantastical twist: Lively’s character dies in a car crash but is revived when she’s struck by lightning, only to stop aging forever.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
"Unfortunately, he had to leave the pitch with a small twist of the ankle," said Iraola.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
The results suggest that movements on the solar surface twist magnetic field lines, creating the intricate structures observed higher in the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
A millennium-old philosophy debate about what makes someone or something conscious is getting a twist in the age of artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
There’s yet another twist in a story that’s already very twisted.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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The cases -- the first of which went to trial earlier this year in Los Angeles -- have taken twists and turns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
A24 knew it had a notorious subject, surprise twists and, in Fielder, a filmmaker who was cult-famous for his attention-grabbing stunts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Life takes unmerciful twists and turns, and financial security is not always about choices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Another case developing in the background of Episode 2, by its end, presents one of the show’s first shocking twists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He studies his boots, scrapes, twists his heel in the dirt.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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A twisted romance: What if, at its core, You Can See Everything is a love story?
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Honduran diva spins twisted pop fairy tales in her bewitching new album, ‘Vanity’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
CBS News, for its part, called the Status account a “ludicrous, twisted narrative” and insisted the piece received far fewer edits than most.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The meal felt, in a twisted way, cathartic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Like me, she wore an elaborate dress trimmed with lace and her hair was twisted back into a knot at the base of her neck.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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The visualization resembles the twisting shape of a multicolored protein, with the narrative moving across a grid based on four contrasting pairs: dangerous/safe, weak/powerful, gentle/aggressive, and bad/good.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
By encoding information into different twisting and spinning patterns, researchers may be able to increase the amount of data carried by individual light beams.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
While max-cushion shoes may feel great initially, repetition of these minute wobbly, twisting moments plus the extra mechanical load on muscles, tendons, joints and bones could lead to injury in the long term, critics say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She showed that you can stand behind LGBTQ+ people without twisting into socially awkward or politically damaging positions, no matter your audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I don’t answer, twisting my body to try to get out from under.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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