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The practice “may distort competition, stifle innovation, and potentially lead to monopolies or market concentration in strategic sectors,” as the Center for Strategic and International Studies put it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She added: "No matter what noises exist out there, nothing will be able to distort my reality or be more real to me or not as real to me as this love that we share."

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

"These allegations are all either baseless or they distort the truth," he has said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

All of these categories can distort or exaggerate GDP for reasons that have little to do with the health of the overall economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

As the bricks appear and move outward, they distort the cell, causing it to bulge and change shape, and finally the cell pops—it bursts and dies.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Mitchell and Pomerleau argue the exclusion is inefficient, distorts economic decision-making, and treats taxpayers with similar levels of income differently.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime by mass, similar to how a heavy object distorts a stretched surface.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

Bad weather often distorts the jobs report by making it seem as if employment was weaker than it really was.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

Ahead of the first series of the show last year, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the UK released a statement titled, "When entertainment media distorts faith".

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

It was almost impossible to hear the presentation because the volume was turned up so loud that the sound was distorted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

This was “merely a continuation of the trend toward lower inflation, partly distorted by one-off effects” and the dollar’s falls proved short-lived, Commerzbank’s Michael Pfister said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But for Claire Sisk, a content creator and advocate who has distorted vision, this can be dangerous.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

These properties can be arranged into topological structures, which are patterns that remain stable even when stretched or distorted.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The television screen flickered; its picture grew distorted.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Signs that retail interest could be distorting prices aren’t hard to find: Shares of retail favorites tend to see greater underperformance following a disappointing earnings report, Ali noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Those subsidies, heavily criticised in the EU and US for distorting markets, have helped companies expand rapidly and cut prices.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

But wait: While AI is distorting economic growth, its contribution to that growth is itself distorted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

His side accused Lively of distorting events on set and filed a defamation suit seeking $400 million in damages against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and others.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

The surface of the bulge continued to crack and break, distorting from pressure underneath.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone