distortion
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She knew there was language and a body of research that plainly identified and unpacked what can otherwise be a head-spinning distortion of reality.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
And Yi argues the distortion has warped strategic thinking in both China and the U.S., feeding overconfidence in Beijing and anxiety in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A guidepost of Chilean hyper-pop, it is also a heart-wrenching mash of tenderness and distortion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
That distortion would change the apparent size of the patterns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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One threat is to scientific journals, the guardians of scientific integrity, which are seen to be failing to deal with a tsunami of AI-generated distortions.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Strong gravitational lensing produces obvious distortions, including the striking arcs captured by JWST.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
As you may remember from high school, most maps of the world use the Mercator projection, which features considerable distortions, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
But what sounds reasonable and fair would create wild distortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
However–and here’s the thing–people on the train would have no sense of these distortions.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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