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as in to tilt
to depart from a straight line or course or from a middle position or value
A glitch caused the image on the screen to skew to one side. This show's viewers tend to skew a little older.
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as in to influence
to change (something) in a way that makes it unfair or inaccurate
The researchers tried to anticipate any problems that might skew the results of the study. Try not to let that one negative experience skew your opinion of the restaurant.
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Recent Examples of skew
However, Trump attempted to skew perception of their respective reactions by sharing side-by-side videos that showed people cheering for him but booing Swift with no caption.
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Advantages: Simple to implement Disadvantages: Can be skewed by one-off experiences; doesn’t capture nuanced brand perceptions like emotional connection
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—Tami Saito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
This can skew critical processes if untested data assumptions go undetected.
—Tarun Eldho Alias, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
But in modern times, papal conclaves have skewed much shorter: The longest conclave in the 20th century lasted five days.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Advantages: Simple to implement Disadvantages: Can be skewed by one-off experiences; doesn’t capture nuanced brand perceptions like emotional connection
2.
—Tami Saito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
This can skew critical processes if untested data assumptions go undetected.
—Tarun Eldho Alias, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
But in modern times, papal conclaves have skewed much shorter: The longest conclave in the 20th century lasted five days.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for skew
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skew
Verb
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These different rates can cause buildings to tilt and can lead to other infrastructure damage.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
8 May 2025
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The Canadian election was initially expected to tilt in favor of the Conservative Party after Justin Trudeau left office with low favorability ratings, but Carney's Liberal Party won instead, with many nodding to the tariff war and Trump's quest to make Canada a 51st state, a unifier for Canadians.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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The proof of the machine’s handicapping chops — or more accurately, the proof of the machine’s programmers’ handicapping chops in weighting the hundreds of factors influencing Thoroughbred performance — will be in the proverbial pudding.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Jon Devine, senior economist at Cotton Incorporated, keeps key stakeholders in the textile and investment communities informed via timely market analyses of commodity economics and factors influencing their stability.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
16 May 2025
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After passengers swim in the ocean, the boat tours the coast, veering close to the jagged cliffs, sea caves, and waterfalls. 10.—
Rachel Ng,
AFAR Media,
7 May 2025
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The Post screams on, and—by the evidence of our last national election, in which almost every demographic in the city veered right, toward Donald Trump, whose profile was created, in part, in Murdoch’s pages—New York keeps hearing it out.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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The Trump administration has labeled multiple institutions in academia and the media industry — from Harvard and Columbia universities to NPR and PBS — as being leftist, Marxist, biased, and woke, and threatened funding cuts.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The Risk Of Bias Amplification AI training models depend on data, and if they are trained on biased data, then their outputs will also be biased.—
Stu Sjouwerman,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Deputies were shooting at a downward angle, since the gore was sloped, and footage showed bullets striking the roadway.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
11 May 2025
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Being built on a hillside that sloped down from the nearby Manningham Lane brought another quirk, in that there was a void between the earth and the wooden floor ranging from nine to 30 inches.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
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Mangione’s lawyers in an April 11 court filing asked Judge Garnett to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, arguing that Bondi had violated the defendant’s rights to due process and that the attorney general had prejudiced the pool of potential jurors with her public statement.—
Dan Mangan,Adam Reiss,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2025
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That court ruled 4-3 that the judge in the original trial, James Burke, had unfairly prejudiced the jury against the defendant by allowing three additional women to testify that Weinstein had assaulted them even though their accusations were not contained in the original indictment.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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Someone angles to take a picture of a brunette in a crisp button-down and another in a crop top—which Laurence and I quickly realize are Charli XCX and Lorde.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
6 May 2025
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For her second selfie, Allen shimmed slightly to the side, gently angling the camera towards her body.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
2 May 2025
Verb
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Opponents slanted their protections toward him all season.—
Ben Standig,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Carvers smoothed the artifact’s surface before using a flint tool to etch a pattern of slanting lines.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Skew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skew. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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