as in distorted
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
a disease that she contracted during childhood caused her spine to become misshaped
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In his video, Oz made at least two other claims about New York that Medicaid advocates and beneficiaries say distorted the facts.—
Ali Swenson,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026 -
Their arousal centers are distorted.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
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The mountains themselves are too deformed to hold hydrocarbons.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Hadi tells an engaging story, brings complex and surprising characters to life, lends a locale an aesthetic iconography, and renders personal identity inextricable from the forces of history that shaped or deformed it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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Emma Durkin curled the ball around the Raiders’ wall and into the back of the net.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Apr. 2026
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Her lips were lightly blurred (as is the contemporary trend) and brown-nude, while eyeshadow was kept light, and lashes delicately curled.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Misshaped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misshaped. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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