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
Yet I could have wished that he had been less parsimonious with his human appeals, for whenever he unbends he can be at once interesting and informing.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
To full satiety of grief she mourns, Then silent to the joyous hall returns, To the proud suitors bears in pensive state The unbended bow, and arrows winged with fate.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
The moon has shone on but few like it though she is old; the lake of Bolsena has glittered beneath none like it since the Etruscans here unbended after the solemnities of a triumph.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
It was to no purpose, therefore, that Thwackum, who was immediately charged by Mr Blifil with the story, unbended all his rancour against poor Tom.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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
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
I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
Though his mother, Ms. Giuliano, also looked haggard, she remained unbent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
It set a template for the rest of her political career: unbending, strong, determined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Clouds that gathered where ships were supposed to appear, and the passing of the day, slowly did the job of unbending my smile.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
