bent
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The “figures” here—square steel tubes that have been bent into ruffles and impossible-seeming joints—lean against supports, trying to catch their breath.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Small ring molecules behave somewhat like bent branches under pressure.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for "Taiwan Travelogue", a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Not long after, Gray, in a plaid mini, is also posing at the photographers’ request, switching effortlessly between signature Gen Z stances, chin resting atop a bent hand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
He bent his good eye toward the floor.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 3
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