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Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
As owners of multi-million dollar grossing brands, Bracken-Ferguson and Butler’s insights are based on objective market realities with no intended social or political bent.
—Ebony Flake, Essence, 4 Apr. 2024
Hailing from Compton, the Goat Mafia will be serving its traditional birria with an L.A. bent.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
O’Leary’s lifestyle echoes the rural aristocratic bent of his predecessor.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
Butler also had an aggressive bent to start the third quarter and drove for a dunk late in the third after a brief rest.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
In animation, the whooshing and whipping water that Katara bent was gorgeously, and unrealistically, a deep blue.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
Young men dabbling in revolutionary politics and a photographer with a bent for blackmail add complexity to the plot, as do a pair of foxes who masquerade as attractive gentlemen.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
With an openly progressive bent, this show with a Homer Simpsonesque title takes on topical issues from a factual-if-spun standpoint and includes interviews conducted by Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Ian Silverii (a former Denver Post guest columnist).
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The creature’s face seemed to be protruded, because of its bent carriage.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
One was slightly bent at the middle of the blade, the warrant said.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
Concentric Push-Up Katie Thompson Start lying on the floor with palms at chest level, elbows bent, toes on the ground, heels pointing up.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Apr. 2024
The strip installs easily with adhesive backing and can be bent or trimmed to fit your space.
—Pamela Porter, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2024
The students followed along in their own copies, heads bent, necks looking vulnerable and strong at the same time.
—Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
This quick-hitter guide to early-spring fish locations and habits will get you on the fast track to a bent rod.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English, grassy place, bent grass, from Old English beonot-; akin to Old High German binuz rush
Adjective
Middle English, from past participle of benden to bend
Noun (2)
irregular from bend entry 1
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Bent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bent. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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bent
1 of 3 nounbent
2 of 3 adjectivebent
3 of 3 nounNoun
Middle English bent "grassy place, bent grass"
Adjective
Middle English bent "crooked," from benden "to bend"
Noun
from bend "to turn in a certain direction"
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