twisting
Americannoun
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twistings
plural
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the act of squirming or turning about; wiggling.
Her restless twisting disturbed the bedsheets.
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the act or practice of tricking the holder of a life insurance policy into switching to a policy from a new company that is less advantageous for them.
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She showed that you can stand behind LGBTQ+ people without twisting into socially awkward or politically damaging positions, no matter your audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Crying in a suit and tie,” she warbles, referring to her onstage look from a few years ago, then twisting the image into a joke with “But you should see the other guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
As the twisting increases, the magnetic configuration becomes both highly energetic and unstable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The ground seemed to have come alive—rising and falling, twisting and rolling.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
The dance is what the title suggests: the twistings and turnings of an insomniac, incarnated by the flexible Heriberto Meneses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Arranged by loose themes, the show charts the vertiginous twistings of Mr. Van Noten’s imagination, and the way he absorbs and digests source material that spans centuries and mediums.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2014
In none of these twistings of conventional reality did Vonnegut ever address himself directly to the question of madness.
From Time Magazine Archive
These twistings and turnings, suggests Biographer Kraus, result from the fact that Winston Churchill is a minor politician, but a major prophet and inspired visionary.
From Time Magazine Archive
There seemed to be hundreds of twistings and turnings, and many other pipes that opened off the main route, but Tucker Mouse knew his way perfectly— even in the dark.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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