as in to straighten
to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls
the new highway will largely unbend that twisting path that the old road used to follow
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Despite some pleas from Trump apologists who still pony up cash to the organizations operating under the Koch umbrella, the leadership remains unbending in their decision to stay out of the presidential race altogether.
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Enter settlers and swindlers, pioneers and politicians, all bent on unbending the river, ecosystems and human bodies deemed expendable along the way as engineers forced their will on the landscape.
—Meera Subramanian, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
At the heart of this capacious, occasionally baggy narrative is Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who plays Wilkerson in a stunning central performance that calls on her to be stoic and unbending one moment, and shakily vulnerable the next.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
Despite his decision to shut out Netanyahu for months, Biden made a point of saying that his loyalty to Israel was unbending.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
Whitfield, a man of unbending faith, sees a powerful harmony with the fact that the birthday of his mother, Ruth Whitfield, this year would have fallen on the Good Friday date of April 7, for Christians like him a day of death followed by rebirth.
—Gary Craig, USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
Hackett, who is unbending about confidentiality with the kind of decorum that would make Emily Post self-conscious, has clientele that encompasses top studios, individual C-suite executives and financiers.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
Then, unbend and flatten the second bobby pin to make one long, straight lock pick.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
Then unbend and flatten the second bobby pin to make one long, straight lock pick.
—Kevin Dupzyk and Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2020
Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Enter settlers and swindlers, pioneers and politicians, all bent on unbending the river, ecosystems and human bodies deemed expendable along the way as engineers forced their will on the landscape.
—Meera Subramanian, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
At the heart of this capacious, occasionally baggy narrative is Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who plays Wilkerson in a stunning central performance that calls on her to be stoic and unbending one moment, and shakily vulnerable the next.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
Despite his decision to shut out Netanyahu for months, Biden made a point of saying that his loyalty to Israel was unbending.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
Whitfield, a man of unbending faith, sees a powerful harmony with the fact that the birthday of his mother, Ruth Whitfield, this year would have fallen on the Good Friday date of April 7, for Christians like him a day of death followed by rebirth.
—Gary Craig, USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
Hackett, who is unbending about confidentiality with the kind of decorum that would make Emily Post self-conscious, has clientele that encompasses top studios, individual C-suite executives and financiers.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
Then, unbend and flatten the second bobby pin to make one long, straight lock pick.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
Then unbend and flatten the second bobby pin to make one long, straight lock pick.
—Kevin Dupzyk and Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2020
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“Unbend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbend. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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