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Recent Examples of askew Those askew wigs aside, Ackerman gives a memorably borderline-unhinged performance as a Texas housewife focused on keeping her trailer-trash background out of the public eye. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for askew
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Adjective
  • Light and shadow play across the tilted façades, creating a dynamic and surreal composition.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The tilted pinnacle resembles a jaunty ship cutting through clear air.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Conventional cooling systems often rely on cold plates that offer indirect contact with battery cells, which can result in uneven temperature distribution.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Polishing and setting diamonds on uneven surfaces is a rare skill and Chopard does it all in-house.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Their boss, the only one not carrying a blaster, pointed a long crooked finger at Rusty and all the Blasters were raised at Rusty in unison.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For a Chicago Cubs lineup that has struggled lately to consistently score runs, let alone put up a crooked number, Friday’s opener against the Colorado Rockies provided the ideal bounce-back environment coming off the sweep in San Francisco.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • After going down with an oblique injury earlier this month, top rookie Roman Anthony was given a four-to-six-week timeline for a potential return to the lineup.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Hill missed nearly a month of training camp and preseason with an oblique injury.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Askew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/askew. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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