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as in misrepresenting
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible
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as in deforming
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position
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Recent Examples of distorting
Still, another way to view it is that AI is the latest tool in humanity’s long history of shaping and distorting narratives.
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Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself, bending and distorting the light of even more distant galaxies behind them.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Petrified faces tightly framed by the distorting lens of the camera.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
The impermanence of our digital footprint, especially in this age of AI scraping and incomplete catalog streaming, is distorting our story.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Kimmel’s September 15 monologue accused MAGA supporters of distorting the shooter’s motives, despite reports that the assailant leaned left politically.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Carr said Monday that Democrats are distorting his comments and misrepresenting the work at the FCC.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
But at his recent press conference, the President stood at the dais and delivered a barrage of falsehoods that might not be obviously false to most Americans—misrepresenting evidence on autism, distorting research on vaccines, and offering a grab bag of unscientific medical opinions.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Presidential executive orders have committed the Administration to identifying and, to the fullest extent legally possible, eliminating anticompetitive market-distorting federal and state regulations.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself, bending and distorting the light of even more distant galaxies behind them.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Petrified faces tightly framed by the distorting lens of the camera.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
The impermanence of our digital footprint, especially in this age of AI scraping and incomplete catalog streaming, is distorting our story.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Kimmel’s September 15 monologue accused MAGA supporters of distorting the shooter’s motives, despite reports that the assailant leaned left politically.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Carr said Monday that Democrats are distorting his comments and misrepresenting the work at the FCC.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
But at his recent press conference, the President stood at the dais and delivered a barrage of falsehoods that might not be obviously false to most Americans—misrepresenting evidence on autism, distorting research on vaccines, and offering a grab bag of unscientific medical opinions.
—Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Presidential executive orders have committed the Administration to identifying and, to the fullest extent legally possible, eliminating anticompetitive market-distorting federal and state regulations.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorting
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Then later, after Flores had died, the litigation accuses Freedman of publicly defending himself by betraying attorney-client confidences and misrepresenting the merits of Flores’ own case in the media.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday that Republicans were misrepresenting the Democratic Party's position.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Rice team designed a material that remains stable while also deforming on command, a combination not previously seen in soft structures.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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Outside that moment, everyone resumed contorting themselves to serve the Establishment in one way or another to survive.—
Eddie Huang,
Curbed,
9 Oct. 2025
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The shoulder cut-out is designed for side sleepers, so there’s no pillow-bunching or spine-contorting in the process of getting comfortable.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
6 Oct. 2025
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Plumbing in an old house requires reaching into funny crevices and screwing things the right way.—
Matthew Hutson,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Sep. 2025
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Put the stopper back in the sink before re-screwing the pivot nut, horizontal rod, and sliding your under sink items back into place.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
18 Sep. 2025
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Murphy also revealed there would be a focus on the Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory, who, along with her servants, was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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To prevent it from shifting, use a rug pad or corner grippers that secure it in place and stop the corners from curling.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Oct. 2025
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Guimaraes had got Newcastle motoring, curling in a long-range shot after 58 minutes.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Made from carbon steel with a durable nonstick coating, these pans are built to resist warping and make cleanup easy.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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This is the most spectacular form of gravitational lensing in which the gravity of a foreground object — in this case a massive elliptical galaxy — is warping space.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Distorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorting. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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