- present participle of twist.
twisting
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twistings
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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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But Mr. Holloway and Mr. Barrett are expert at twisting the mundane into the uncanny, and rely only minimally on the kind of jump-scares that cheapen many a horror movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
Prof Ramesh says a CME occurs when these twisting, looping lines - which resemble braided hair - rupture, throwing out massive clouds of magnetised plasma and gas in space.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It looked at Anya, head twisting side to side.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Doubtless there will be many twistings and turnings, moments of tension and suspense, backsliding by either side that threatens to abort the whole process before a real peace is nailed down.
From Time Magazine Archive
In none of these twistings of conventional reality did Vonnegut ever address himself directly to the question of madness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ranofer grew more and more excited as he followed Gebu’s twistings and turnings; more and more cautious, too, as he noticed that Gebu often looked behind him in a not-quite-convincingly casual manner.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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