distortion
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When one strips back the politics, culture wars and centuries of institutional distortion surrounding Christianity, something unexpected emerges.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
This gloom, though, looks like yet another distortion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Equipped with two 8.4-meter mirrors and an adaptive optics system that reduces atmospheric distortion, the telescope produced the first high-resolution color image of this system.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
The distortion caused by the rise in Avis makes the transport index a somewhat less reliable gauge of the economy.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
In this interpretation, which we owe to Einstein, gravity is a distortion in the fabric of space.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Vocabulary lists containing distortion
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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