as in deformation
the twisting of something out of its natural or normal shape or condition
had to total the car due to a distortion of the chassis resulting from collision
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Recent Examples of distortion
Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.
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Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
The last quarter of the eighteenth century was a pre-democratic era, and all efforts to read a Jacksonian or Tocquevillian faith in the wisdom of the common man into the American founding are misleading distortions.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t fare any better, thanks to distortion in the objects on the kitchen counter and window, as well as its generation of multiple light fixtures.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
The same occupational distortion was visible during COVID-19.
—Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
The last quarter of the eighteenth century was a pre-democratic era, and all efforts to read a Jacksonian or Tocquevillian faith in the wisdom of the common man into the American founding are misleading distortions.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t fare any better, thanks to distortion in the objects on the kitchen counter and window, as well as its generation of multiple light fixtures.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
The same occupational distortion was visible during COVID-19.
—Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distortion
deformation
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By carefully designing repeating units, researchers can control these deformations to perform different calculations and even reprogram the material after it has been made.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Asurvey of three species of octopuses from Europe and the Americas catalogued a total of 6,781 arm deformations.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Distortion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distortion. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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