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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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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

The initial failure caused the pool deck’s concrete slab to warp and fracture, and the building showed undiagnosed warning signs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

Then why had something snapped like a broken warp thread inside Lyddie’s soul?

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

This matters not just because it warps truth and dishonors Good’s memory but because it makes improving the world impossible.

From Slate Jan. 9, 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

"Phone photos have warped our perception of time."

From BBC Aug. 8, 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

Two load-bearing columns of a 37-story tower currently under construction, located near Grand Central Terminal, warped and several floors sagged on Tuesday.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 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

These clumps grew so large, particularly in the absence of oxygen, that they tugged the membrane of the red cell until the normal disk was warped into a crescent-shaped, dysmorphic “sickle cell.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Over a microphone, designer Callie Kinnan describes her decision to resew the entire garment in a new material: “The stretch mesh didn’t work. It kept warping when I sewed.”

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

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

All of Jonesy’s shark talk may be warping my brain.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell




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