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[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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“We got it cataloged immediately, which means someone can order it up in the reading room tomorrow, and that’s warp speed for us,” she added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

“We’re in warp zone now,” says Martha Heller, chief executive officer of Heller Search, a Massachusetts-based recruiting firm that specializes in finding candidates for C-suite technology positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

But the hearing wasn’t the only recent time warp.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

It was like watching someone’s personality warp into Mr. Hyde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

But I seemed to slip into a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

He does not seem to think about the jobs it will destroy, the way it is poisoning creativity or education, the way it warps our shared sense of reality.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

This warps market incentives, discourages fair competition, and introduces long-term risk to private capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

At its core, she explains, lying is "telling a story with the intention to deceive people" and that warps reality in a powerful way which she warns can ultimately be damaging.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

Among the nuggets he shared: “There’s a lensing effect that expands things out and warps things out in a very interesting way,” which affects our view of the stars around it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

My moonstone badge warps from a circle into an oval, Department of Supernatural Investigations engraved above the image of an evenly weighted balance.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

This effectively "warped time" for brain development, which was "super cool", she added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

How can a black boy be fearless in America, Bernadette asks, and answers: What follows for John is a warped upbringing of parental favoritism mixed with cruelly rigorous training.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Alison remembers her mother collecting melted bottles and warped pans left by the Bel-Air fire that tore through Laurel Canyon shortly before the family relocated there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Everything from eating out to kids’ extracurricular activities has been warped by the wealthy’s ability to spend regardless of the price, said Brian Eder, managing partner and private wealth advisor at OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026

All of ’em made of orangish-brown clay and hung on a warped wall so you could get a good view as you sat in traffic waiting to get back to America.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime, with over 90 percent of its parts sourced from discarded vehicle pieces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

"In addition, when the pulses travel near a very massive object, they may be deflected and experience time delays due to the warping of space-time, as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026

T-glass is used in reinforcement layers under or around chips, and those layers help prevent the package from warping when processors heat up to around the boiling point of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

It also sets up the acute psychology that drives Magellan: obsessive curiosity warping into enforced Christian conversion, a consequential folly to which the filmmaker adds his own historical take.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

All of it followed, in his mind, from the warping effects of his fake eye.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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