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contort

verb as in disfigure, distort

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While the usual suspects of locker room talk — racism, bigotry and a petty necessity to keep calling the Washington Commanders the “Redskins” — featured prominently in the culture of football, what was most striking was the sport’s seemingly inherent drive to contort bodies into the political and social category of manly.

From Salon

In the weeks that followed, I tried to contort the conversation back to the assault.

From Slate

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colorado, suggested that Trump's allies are disparaging Walz because they "have no ideas and no vision for the future, so all they can do is attack and lie and twist and contort and it shows the country their complete lack of leadership."

From Salon

Vance “weird” is rather effective, and has caused Vance and his party-mates to contort themselves to prove he’s not, in fact, weird.

From Slate

This braced leg then acted as a pivot for the rest of his body to contort over with his bowling arm up high in his unique 'beyond the perpendicular' style.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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