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Some of this has to do with the opportunities for multimedia exploitation—Netflix series waiting to be made—but an equally large part has to do with how sustained exposure can distort an author’s public profile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

More than 3,200 pistons distort two flexible mirrors with near atomic-scale precision to account for blemishes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

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

And there the ginger smell was sharp, sharp enough to distort dreams and make the sleeper believe the things he hungered for were right at hand.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Flying Food Group vehemently denied the substance of the complaint, writing in its statement that “images were staged, manipulated, taken out of context, or otherwise presented in a manner that distorts their meaning.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

"When you go through something like that so young it kind of distorts your reality for a long time," Pesante said.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Bianco thinks the era of financial repression has given investors a distorted view of what returns they should expect from stocks and bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ramirez’s two classmates, an Asian woman and a white man, remained in the edited version, but they were changed to appear thinner, and their facial features were noticeably distorted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead, he mentally revisited the many things that could have distorted the measurement, including small variations in temperature and pressure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

His face was huge, shiny, and pink, every feature distorted by Hermione’s jinx.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

French motorists are clogging TotalEnergies service stations to fill up with discount gasoline but its rivals are crying foul, accusing the energy giant of distorting competition with the encouragement of the government.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

The jump in prices in certain sectors highlights the ways that the spending habits of the wealthy are distorting the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 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

I sent out members to mingle with crowds and try to discourage any further violence and sent an open letter to all the press denouncing them for "distorting" and inflating minor incidents.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison