distort

Example Sentences

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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

Valuing Micron is tricky because cyclical earnings distort traditional price-to-earnings snapshots.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

It its European Club Footballing Landscape report in 2023 it said that the "growth in multi-club investment has the potential to distort transfer activity".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 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