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Recent Examples of mind-bending
This is a mind-bending endorsement by McMahon’s think tank.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2025
The Chiefs’ mind-bending mocking of probability finally ended on Sunday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
Beecham may be best known for starring in Netflix’s mind-bending series 1899 and appeared in the Guy Ritchie thriller The Covenant with Jake Gyllenhaal.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Those are the two major plot strands of the new season, which has sacrificed much of the playfulness of season 1 for some terribly complicated world-building that leads, at least, to one mind-bending conversation between innie and outie.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2025
The Chiefs’ mind-bending mocking of probability finally ended on Sunday.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
Beecham may be best known for starring in Netflix’s mind-bending series 1899 and appeared in the Guy Ritchie thriller The Covenant with Jake Gyllenhaal.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Those are the two major plot strands of the new season, which has sacrificed much of the playfulness of season 1 for some terribly complicated world-building that leads, at least, to one mind-bending conversation between innie and outie.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mind-bending
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The chef’s kitchen is just as impressive, decked out with a stone pizza oven, high-end appliances, and dramatic picture windows that showcase the breathtaking city-to-ocean views.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
26 Mar. 2025
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Beneath the breathtaking view of the Camelback and Mummy Mountains, Taylor and Hooker exchanged both handwritten and traditional vows.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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The tools offer exciting new clues to how people living in the area thousands of years ago may have lived and interacted.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
9 Apr. 2025
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Outside of Matthews’ single shot, the most exciting chance the line created was an out-of-character clapper from Marner off the rush that was more of a novelty than a high-danger look.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Having said that, there might be interesting parallels with other cases and countries.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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The series has an interesting group of producers including Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, who is a lifelong Blues fan, who will exec produce, and Tom Brady, who bought a minority stake in the club in August 2023 and will produce via his Religion of Sports label.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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What’s Not In There were some intriguing omissions.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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There is also a large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, that contains intriguing needle-like structures.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Gators pulled off a thrilling 65-63win over the Cougars, overcoming a 12-point deficit against the nation’s best defensive unit.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The rest of the show is a thrilling unmooring from heterosexual convention.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Mind-bending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mind-bending. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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