distorted
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The data are there, he points out, but they are often concealed or distorted.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
"Recent reporting of the meeting is highly exaggerated and distorted," the Pentagon said on X. "The meeting between Pentagon and Vatican officials was a respectful and reasonable discussion."
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
It’s a cracked mirror, with each fragment revealing a different, distorted image of the human psyche — and it’s really funny, too.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
It was also a rebuke to the idea of grandiosity, in which inflated self-regard amounts to a distorted relationship with reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The ice reflected his distorted shadow and the beam of wandlight, but deep below the thick, misty gray carapace, something else glinted.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing distorted
Twists and Turns: Tor
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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"An Awful Human Trade," Vocabulary from the news article
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