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warps

  • present tense form
    of warp (3rd person singular).
    warp
    verb (used with object)
    to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.

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In “Send Help,” Linda’s authority ultimately warps her as it did her superior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

At its core, she explains, lying is "telling a story with the intention to deceive people" and that warps reality in a powerful way which she warns can ultimately be damaging.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

But the novel’s truest setting is an emotional one, anyway; Berman’s gift is for revealing the ways that attachment warps into envy, and how we rationalize or ignore those emotions even while they consume us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

But this is not just a narrative; it is a doctrine, one that warps everything around it.

From Slate ● May 15, 2025

My moonstone badge warps from a circle into an oval, Department of Supernatural Investigations engraved above the image of an evenly weighted balance.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston