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warp

[wawrp] / wɔrp /


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What if your corner of town were to drop unexpectedly through a kind of sudden-onset time warp and slip back into the age of dinosaurs?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

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

From Salon Aug. 1, 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

When I recently watched both movies again, it was like falling into a musical comedy time warp.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

Along the wall there were tilting lances, resting horizontally on nails so that they should not warp.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

All of these pieces have dramatic warps, waves, marbling and imperfections that make them unique and add to their beauty and history.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

In “Send Help,” Linda’s authority ultimately warps her as it did her superior.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 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

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

"Even the idea of what is attractive and what is unattractive is becoming warped," he says.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

She could hear Hibiscus screaming, his voice warped and bending as it went on and on, scraping his throat.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

He also lambasted people’s preoccupation with possessing money as warping their imaginations and blinding them to the existence of more fulfilling possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 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

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

The couple were faced with setbacks while building the home with rain water dripping through tarpaulin covering the structure that resulted in warping of the boards.

From BBC Oct. 20, 2025

When I came to visit her, we settled on the warping floorboards, where Felicia ate her meals with a serving spoon.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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