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as in distorted
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent
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as in filtered
to remove usually visible impurities from
garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe
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Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, said the data was distorted by the timing of the Lunar New Year, which falls in mid-February this year after taking place in January last year.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026 -
The regulatory asymmetry distorted competition and made Verizon’s devices uniquely attractive to criminals.—
Roslyn Layton,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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The remaining light that does reach the Moon is filtered through Earth's atmosphere, which scatters shorter wavelengths and allows red and orange tones to pass through.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
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When education is filtered through ideology, students stop learning how to question, debate, and evaluate evidence.—
Robert Casper,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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The president has consistently misrepresented his tariffs, claiming despite evidence to the contrary that foreign governments would pay them and that the revenues would be sufficient to pay down the national debt and give taxpayers a dividend check.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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The president has consistently misrepresented his tariffs, claiming despite evidence to the contrary that foreign governments would pay them and that the revenues would be sufficient to pay down the national debt and give taxpayers a dividend check.—
Josh Boak,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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But if anyone hoped for a night of tidy answers, BAFTA offered the opposite with a loud reshuffle that may have clarified one thing and destabilized nearly everything else.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
22 Feb. 2026
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This study not only clarified the date of the burial, which drove archaeologists practically mad, as no one could determine why the dates kept coming back so broadly, but also settled the matter once and for all.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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Over the past decade, quantum information theory has shown that with smarter measurement strategies, more detail can be extracted from the same light.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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The deal Mondale's forces had extracted from union leaders fell apart at the rank-and-file level.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Her makeup was kept equally refined with dark fluffy brows and a soft touch of mauve blush.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
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Original characters are still designed and refined by human hands.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Garbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garbled. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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