distort
Example Sentences
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"When you go through something like that so young it kind of distorts your reality for a long time," Pesante said.
From BBC
At even later stages, the atoms form more stretched and distorted shapes, reflecting a swinging, roaming motion.
From Science Daily
It previously agreed to add safeguards that could pause tariffs on some agricultural goods from South America if there is evidence that they are distorting prices in the EU.
The dip was distorted by labor strikes, but it raises an important question: Can healthcare keep the economy healthy?
"However, cancer should rather be understood as a distorted form of development."
From Science Daily
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