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The phrase "bent by" can be used in written English.
It usually means to be influenced by something or to be changed by something. For example, "His decision was bent by fear."
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I suspect they've had their ears bent by bigger companies.
Headline inflation is easily bent by volatile prices.
Her characters are like saplings bent by storms.
Only those bent by this passion for writing books.
During collision, the steel plate is split and bent by the die.
The outcome was compared with plates bent by the freehand approach in a stereolithographic skull model.
The latter could be easily bent by inadvertently applying finger pressure in the wrong places.
Einstein predicted that light should also be bent by gravity, since acceleration and gravity are equivalent.
Because they are electrically charged, their paths are bent by the Milky Way's magnetic field.
Einstein predicted that starlight would be bent by the warping of space around the sun.
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But, even so, "They were bent / By paths coincident / On being anon twin halves of one august event".
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