- present participle of twist.
twisting
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If you feel like a marketing rep is twisting your arm, run.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Raman accused Bass of twisting her words, but later apologized for invoking Gates’ name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Humboldt County officials have long debated what to do about Centerville Road, a narrow, twisting byway that leads to an eroding rural beach and a handful of homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
At last he tossed it extravagantly high, made a spectacular twisting leap, and swallowed it in .one gulp.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The dance is what the title suggests: the twistings and turnings of an insomniac, incarnated by the flexible Heriberto Meneses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Arranged by loose themes, the show charts the vertiginous twistings of Mr. Van Noten’s imagination, and the way he absorbs and digests source material that spans centuries and mediums.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2014
So are the twistings of that frosty, flabbergastingly flat accent as heard on the Minnesota-based Mystery Science Theater 3000.
From Time Magazine Archive
In none of these twistings of conventional reality did Vonnegut ever address himself directly to the question of madness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bed creaks all night with her twistings and turnings and she keeps us awake with her moaning for water.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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