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
Economists say it’s been difficult to asses the underlying health of consumer spending because of temporary distortions to economic data, such as people front-running purchases of big-ticket items to beat Trump, tariffs, which sent retail sales surging in March.
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Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Simply encouraging production will do little to address how billionaires and $1 trillion revenue companies use political clout to bend economic rules in their favor; addressing those distortions will not speed decarbonization or prepare the United States to compete with a geopolitical peer.
—Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
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Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Simply encouraging production will do little to address how billionaires and $1 trillion revenue companies use political clout to bend economic rules in their favor; addressing those distortions will not speed decarbonization or prepare the United States to compete with a geopolitical peer.
—Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distortion
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In the northern Sierra, there are currently no signs of deformation.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Because of the slope’s slow-moving collapse, scientists can study the landslide’s historical rates of deformation and see how those changes relate to the retreat of the Barry Arm glacier.—
Darren Orf,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Distortion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distortion. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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