unbend
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“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022
Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018
As Charlie Price, the starchy young shoe factory heir who learns to unbend and open his mind under Lola’s tutelage, Andy Kelso is most charmingly awkward in the role created by Stark Sands.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015
Theon let the bow unbend slowly and pointed the arrow at the ground.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023
But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017
Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
Jan, Katrina, Hendrik, Gert, Jacobina, and the tiny, toddling Jacie, all receive their morsel of the sweet-stuff—not without some awe and wonderment, for the grim, burly Boer man seldom unbends so far.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
The unbended sail Flaps idly in the passing wind; And dark below, each dull canal Is stagnant as its owner's mind!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Louis, who always unbended to a merry jester, was showing his pictures to Killigrew, when they came to a painting of the Crucifixion, placed between portraits of the Pope and the "Roi Soleil" himself.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
Gerhardt had unbended so gradually that his interest was not even yet clearly discernible, but he had a distinct feeling of kindliness toward her.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
Jennie was his companion now, and as he more and more unbended, and even joyously flung aside the habiliments of his dignity, her perception of him grew clearer.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
The tournament has the unbent feel of a week-and-a-half-long summer camp.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
After Brown had enforced sufficient deference, he unbent a bit.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
“Unbowed, unbent, unbroken — for Oberyn,” Ellaria solemnly says to the Sand Snakes before sending them on their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2015
Yet his back was still unbent, and the years had not yet robbed him of his skill at arms.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It was Wayne — America’s biggest movie star, the self-reliant enforcer, the loping lawman who set the world to rights by virtue of his unbending fortitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
She’s watchful, she’s contained, inhabiting the character’s resilience and giving her a core of unbending steel.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
I saw that I had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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