warp
verb (used with object)
to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
warping
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present participleof warp.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In this special three-part podcast, “AI and the Blurring of Reality,” Wall Street Journal personal-technology columnist Nicole Nguyen explores the ways that artificial intelligence is warping our understanding of what is real.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime, with over 90 percent of its parts sourced from discarded vehicle pieces.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
"In addition, when the pulses travel near a very massive object, they may be deflected and experience time delays due to the warping of space-time, as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
It also sets up the acute psychology that drives Magellan: obsessive curiosity warping into enforced Christian conversion, a consequential folly to which the filmmaker adds his own historical take.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
And yet the world it constructs . . . lowering in pitch and warping as the batteries die, the lesson slowing as though the young man is exhausted, and then it stops.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
