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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

Add in the ever-growing quality of deepfakes, and it has never been easier to not only distort reality, but also to establish one’s own beachhead on it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

"These allegations are all either baseless or they distort the truth," he has said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

You saw the flash, then heard the crack, then saw the smoke ball distort and thin in the wind.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

“Inflation distorts all forms of capital income and expense, not just capital gains,” observed Elena Patel of the Brookings Institution earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

Bad weather often distorts the jobs report by making it seem as if employment was weaker than it really was.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

Instead of making her clients beautiful, she distorts them.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

It was almost impossible to hear the presentation because the volume was turned up so loud that the sound was distorted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

This was “merely a continuation of the trend toward lower inflation, partly distorted by one-off effects” and the dollar’s falls proved short-lived, Commerzbank’s Michael Pfister said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But for Claire Sisk, a content creator and advocate who has distorted vision, this can be dangerous.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Dispute over Copernicanism was distorted by the intervention of the theologians, but the dispute over physics could take place without such interference.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But there is a risk that, in markets with more retail activity, these same tools could help to drive even more investors into a handful of hot names, crowding stocks and distorting prices.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

In short, City effectively stand accused of subverting Premier League rules that clubs had agreed to comply with, and of distorting the competition over multiple seasons.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

This points to something else AI is distorting: international trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

His side accused Lively of distorting events on set and filed a defamation suit seeking $400 million in damages against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and others.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Hector only scowls, the flames of the bonfire further distorting his expression.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern