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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
refract .
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Examples
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This searing portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth draws on her celebrated journals but refracts them through a distinctly now sensibility.
Cover to Cover 2009
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And the truth is, it almost doesn't matter how Mini refracts its own celestial light.
Mini's Hot Coupe: Drive It—If Your Pal Buys One Dan Neil 2012
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He then layers, refracts, or creates interference patterns to observe the emerging self-organizing geometric patterns.
Bill Bush: The Tension Between Order And Chaos: This Artweek.LA (June 20-26) Bill Bush 2011
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In the central and largest portion of the show, the stalwart god refracts into avatars or incarnations.
From Stillness, Cosmic Action Lee Lawrence 2011
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He then layers, refracts, or creates interference patterns to observe the emerging self-organizing geometric patterns.
Bill Bush: The Tension Between Order And Chaos: This Artweek.LA (June 20-26) Bill Bush 2011
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He then layers, refracts, or creates interference patterns to observe the emerging self-organizing geometric patterns.
Bill Bush: The Tension Between Order And Chaos: This Artweek.LA (June 20-26) Bill Bush 2011
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When light enters water those wavelengths break apart, because water acts like a prism and refracts light.
Ok, this is probably a commonly asked question, but I always forget. 2009
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When light enters water those wavelengths break apart, because water acts like a prism and refracts light.
Ok, this is probably a commonly asked question, but I always forget. 2009
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A car peels past the house, and the sun catches the glossy finish of the paint and refracts rainbows all along the wall across from you.
Portrait of a Sunday Afternoon Ann-Marie Martino 2011
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This searing portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth draws on her celebrated journals but refracts them through a distinctly now sensibility.
Cover to Cover 2009
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