The mountains themselves are too deformed to hold hydrocarbons.
— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
Hadi tells an engaging story, brings complex and surprising characters to life, lends a locale an aesthetic iconography, and renders personal identity inextricable from the forces of history that shaped or deformed it.
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is severely disfigured after sustaining leg and face injuries during initial airstrikes on Tehran in February, Reuters reported earlier this week.
— Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The state largely clamped down on exotic pet ownership after the 2009 chimpanzee attack on Charla Nash in a home in Stamford, which left her permanently blind and disfigured.
— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
Inside, the quintessential New England house built in 1888 has been transformed by the talents at Champalimaud Design, who have all but redefined contemporary hotel interiors worldwide, and whose founder Alexandra Champalimaud happens to live in town.
Tesla sedans and Cybertrucks seem to be everywhere – a testament to how the company revolutionized the electric car industry and redefined the American road.
Others were quick to point out that jewels from the royal collection are regularly refashioned and worn by multiple people, such as the Cullinan III and IV brooch that Queen Mary (Queen Elizabeth II’s grandmother) once wore as a necklace.
— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 13 Mar. 2026
As streetcars gave way to private automobiles, the government built interstates and white flight swelled the suburbs, our city infrastructure was refashioned to favor cars.
The former clubhouse was remodeled into Trinity Christian College’s administration building, and the original curriculum focused on philosophy, history, English and theology.
— Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
Three Placer County Walmart stores are set to be remodeled this year as part of a nationwide effort by Walmart to update its stores.
The spaces are being redesigned for the machines, but there still needs to be some kind of creative lab environment where scientists can validate what the machines are doing.
— Diana Olick, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
The Better Bus Network grew out of a years-long push to rethink a system that had not been fully redesigned in decades.
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