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as in distorting
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 filtering
to remove usually visible impurities from
garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe
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These pressures are distorting the market.—
Vijay Dandapani,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2026 -
The comments reflect longstanding German concerns about what Berlin sees as an undervalued yuan, market-distorting subsidies and overcapacity among Chinese exporters that have built massive trade surpluses with Europe’s largest economy, amounting to 90 billion euros ($106 billion) last year.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
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In a nutshell, wastewater recycling works by first physically filtering the water, then subjecting it to reverse osmosis, and finally purifying it with ultraviolet light.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
25 Feb. 2026
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Instead of flooding analysts with thousands of warnings, the agents gather evidence in real time—querying threat-intelligence databases, analyzing behavioral patterns, and filtering out false positives—before deciding whether a situation warrants escalation.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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Trump did not believe the Iranians were serious about giving up its decades-long ambition to develop a nuclear weapon and seemed to be misrepresenting the extent of its enrichment capabilities.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
28 Feb. 2026
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The Justice Department alleged in 2024 that Smith-Griffin, while misrepresenting the financial health of her tech company, obtained nearly $10 million from investors.—
Helen Jeong,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
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The Nobel Prize had cast a clarifying light backward.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2026
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The airport released a statement Thursday clarifying its post was intended as a joke.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2026
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ContextIA is capable of answering specific queries with direct quotes and page references; extracting particular data such as phone numbers, license plates and coordinates; and, as its name suggests, cross-referencing cases in the context of different databases.—
Karen Esquivel,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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That’s partly because heat pumps work by extracting heat from outdoor air, compressing it and piping it indoors, a thermal magic trick that’s harder to perform in places with subzero winters.—
Ben Christopher,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Garbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garbling. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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