How to Use mind-bending in a Sentence
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There is no description for the mind-bending depths of grief that come with losing a child.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 4 Jan. 2024
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But the series’s scale and mind-bending turns may leave you too starry-eyed to notice.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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Fear not, he’s been a bit busy… leading us through perhaps the most mind-bending storyline of the whole season.
—Alex Raiman, EW.com, 4 July 2024
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The frontrunner might be jam-packed with mind-bending effects, but the bagel portal is real—well, sort of.
—Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
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He is also known for work on the mind-bending Netflix series Black Mirror.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
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Physics is full of such mind-bending discoveries, many of which have only just been made.
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
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In the end, understanding why the odds are not 50–50 required a mind-bending shift in perspective.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
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Monarch butterflies perform one of the most mind-bending feats in the animal kingdom.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
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Fairground food can be a mind-bending dare: Think infamous fried butter balls or this year's Fruity Pebbles shrimp rice bowl.
—Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
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—Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
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The music video packs bursts of opulence as the visual sees the rappers dropping verses from a mind-bending living room to the beach while flanked by dancers draped in a spectrum of colors.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
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If true, the connection would link two of the most mind-bending concepts in physics--black holes and dark energy--and suggest that the source of the latter has been under theorists’ noses for decades.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
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The first two episodes end on major cliffhangers, making the show perfect for binge-watching, but fans will have to wait another week to find out what happens in this mind-bending thriller.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 2 Apr. 2023
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Thus, amid all the mind-bending multi-versal action and pursuit, Miles’ struggle is really against the very concept of destiny.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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Still, even if these latest developments are just wrinkles, there is no getting away from other mind-bending Trump news.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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For now, put these eye-popping, mind-bending, immersive experience in Houston and throughout Texas on your can't-miss list.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 20 Feb. 2023
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Such is the deeply disturbed state of the left: part Alice-in-Wonderland on steroids, part mind-bending intellectual dishonesty.
—Jeff Robbins, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2024
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Why not show a mind-bending installation by Samara Golden?
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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The Real Science of the Multiverse Explaining some of the mind-bending science behind the popular science fiction trope.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Identity, reality, the vagaries of consciousness: All of them are up for grabs in this (literally) mind-bending piece of work.
—Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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The drama has a sprawling ensemble cast, locations around the globe, sequences set in a mind-bending virtual reality world and enough physics to fill a season of Cosmos.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
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Most intriguing are the flashbacks with Carolyn, which provide a mind-bending glimpse into Rusty’s volatile and obsessive behavior.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
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Lenders are increasingly reluctant to fund projects in San Francisco because of the mind-bending cost and uncertainty.
—Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2023
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The Wachowskis’ visionary directing, thought-provoking script, and mind-bending action sequences still have the ability to make viewers’ jaws drop.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
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One of the more mind-bending hypotheses in cosmology is that our universe could be a holographic projection of a lower dimension.
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
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Museum of Illusions Step inside this Icon Park attraction to see more than 50 mind-bending exhibits and illusions that are designed to dazzle.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
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March 16 Faraway 3: Arctic Escape – Escape to all-new distant places that are full of mind-bending puzzles with new and exciting arctic locations to navigate.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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At the London premiere of his latest film, the mind-bending three-hour historical epic Oppenheimer, Chrstopher Nolan paid tribute to the countless actors who recently worked to create his vision.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 July 2023
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That confidence, to an extent, stems from the reality that the Fed and the U.S. Treasury remain linchpins of global financial power and have the mind-bending ability, between them, to both issue government debt and buy it.
—Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
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The labels promise all-natural, mind-bending trips and boosts of mental clarity, creativity and focus.
—David Ovalle, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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