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skew

verb as in distort

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Hillis also emailed lawmakers with a personal plea, pitching the bill as a way to entice more young people, who tend to skew liberal, into the Republican fold.

Even though this is an activity skewed towards to wealthier people, it is helping a remote economy, and it is getting people outside at a time when we feel caged in.

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That’s both because it was a shortened year — only 23 appearances for him — and because pitch usage doesn’t often skew much for a guy who throws a near-even diet of sliders and four-seam fastballs.

Day-care operators say their workers, whose employees tend to skew older than teachers and often make minimum wage, should be next in line for vaccination.

Parler attracted an audience that skewed hard to the right, including some who came to the service because they believed Twitter was biased against conservatives.

In Scotland, hourly wage inequality matches the rest of the United Kingdom once the skew of London is factored out.

Other colleges took more overt actions to skew their Clery Act numbers.

There are a number of inadvertent and purposeful ways for universities to skew their Clery Act numbers.

Those numbers skew heavily toward the males, with just over 11 percent of male high school students reporting use.

Using capital gains but not government income would tend to skew the results toward the wealthy.

Niagara Falls' spectacular skew-wise splashing toward the Canadian side didn't set many hearts at ease, either.

She was put together skew-geed an' one side of her was so out of geer that she couldn't run straight even on a macadam road.

Another bridge is a perfectly constructed skew arch, which the train crosses a few feet after leaving Chicago.

That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.

Of a truth I will even buy me a skew-bald mount and ride round corners in search of the like reputation.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skew, such as: alter, bias, misrepresent, slant, bend, and change.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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