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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
Over the summer, officials in Turkey — where the lawsuit says some of the allegedly fraudulent Drake streams originated — started investigating Spotify over several allegations, including bribes for playlist placement and bot streams distorting domestic charts.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
Other factors may also be distorting reports of public support for political violence.
—Ryan Kennedy, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
Still, another way to view it is that AI is the latest tool in humanity’s long history of shaping and distorting narratives.
—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
Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
Other factors may also be distorting reports of public support for political violence.
—Ryan Kennedy, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
Still, another way to view it is that AI is the latest tool in humanity’s long history of shaping and distorting narratives.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorting
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Their false-ownership counterclaim — accusing Hill of misrepresenting authorship in copyright filings — survived an anti-SLAPP motion to strike in September 2024; Hill has appealed that ruling to the Ninth Circuit.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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The settlement alleged that TFG Holding violated state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting the price consumers could expect to pay for products advertised on the company’s websites.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The membrane bottleneck Most TFC membranes today can handle about 15-20 bar pressure before deforming.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 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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Whatever the cause, Denton plays Guy as a mid-tier Vampire Diaries protagonist, never evincing a range beyond just sort of screwing his face up a bit when he’s supposed to be upset.—
Lily Osler,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2025
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Each of the authors who spoke to Rolling Stone say Amazon has a clear responsibility to invest in more software and moderation that prevents AI scam books like these from screwing over readers and authors.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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Dahbia Benkired was convicted of raping, torturing and killing Lola Daviet, according the BBC, BFMTV and The New York Times.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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In another film with a less happy outcome, the woman who claims to be the amnesiac’s wife is an impostor who ends up torturing him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass wrote, directed and starred in this blood-curling 2014 film that follows a videographer who takes on a job for an eccentric client.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Seasonal activities are planned according to guest request and include curling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating on nearby Lake Placid.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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The English Wikipedia is now roughly 93 times bigger than Encyclopædia Britannica, the shelf-warping print leviathan that fascinated him as a child.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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Some customers noticed warping or bubbling of the backing material over time.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Distorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorting. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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