refracted

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On the opening “Destination,” a winding and refracted character study, swooning strings trace the singer’s own sense of wonder, as she describes a fellow musician whose life serves as a mirror to her own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

These machines shoot UV light tens of thousands of times through drops of molten tin, which creates a plasma, and is then refracted through a series of specialised mirrors.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

Still, there’s also something kind of profound in contemplating 2000, even if it is refracted through this movie’s silly lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

The reddish color comes from the light being refracted by particles in the atmosphere.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2024

By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson