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
The distortion provides new evidence of how extreme temperatures and powerful winds reshape the atmospheres of distant planets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 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
A convenient distortion, and the least of my offenses against veracity.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
It’s also necessary to limit distortions to private-sector behavior, since private capital and competitive incentives drive the kind of innovation and financial firepower the rest of the world envies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
If only she would learn some theory, she would understand how her supposed antihelical features arose from the minor distortions needed to pack regular helices into a crystalline lattice.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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