distort
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These dark, active regions can distort observations by brightening certain wavelengths and hiding parts of the atmospheric signal.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Progressive Christian voices, including influencer and commentator Tim Whitaker, described the comparison as “blasphemous,” reflecting a broader concern that religious language is being used in ways that distort core theological meaning.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Winter weather and the usual postholiday hiring lull tend to distort the report.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
In January, he published a paper that found that advanced AI tools can disempower users and distort their sense of reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the “Accutrac personality test,” which warns at the beginning that “Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or ‘psych out’ the questionnaire.”
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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