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Contorts (arguably) is a portmanteau, or a
combination of "contracts" and "torts"
originated by
Grant Gilmore in his book The
Death of Contract. The generally...
- Look up
contort or
contortion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contortion is an act of
twisting and deforming.
Contortion may also
refer to: Contortion...
- "Quintuplets 2000" (also
known as "
Contorting Quintuplets 2000" in some
syndicated markets and "Quintuplets" on the
South Park
Studios website) is the...
- In
organic chemistry,
contorted aromatics, or more
precisely contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in...
- Duméril & Bibron, 1853
Ancistrodon contortrix — Baird, 1854
Agkistrodon contorting Abbott, 1869 (ex errore)
Ancistrodon atrofuscus — Cope, 1875 Agkistrodon...
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About 25
million years ago, a
shift in
plate tectonic movements began to
contort and
crumple the region. This is now most
evident in the
Southern Alps,...
- "eerie" and "unusual", Faust's
animations were
intended to be
comical while contorting his body in "unnatural" ways. The
development team
meanwhile felt that...
- strangled. In one such case, a man by the name of
James Stephens was left
contorting and
gurgling until he
finally died of asphyxiation.
Capital punishment...
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disturbing Rose.
After Rose leaves, Kat's body
starts convulsing and
contorting in bed. The next morning, Rose and a sickly-looking Kat join the nuns...
- as "lucky to be alive", and
recalled having tripped initially but then
contorting evasively as he fell "like Tom
Cruise in the new
Mission Impossible film"...
