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as in misrepresents
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible
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as in deforms
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position
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Recent Examples of distorts
Today’s staged raid reinforces our conviction that this investigation distorts French law, circumvents due process, and endangers free speech.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
That pressure distorts the justice system.
—Jaime Huff, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
At the heart of concerns is the low free float of Indonesian equities, given the country’s biggest companies are thinly traded and controlled by a handful of wealthy individuals—a structure that investors say distorts the index and risks manipulation.
—Prima Wirayani, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
That warping distorts the image in the same way that wearing someone else’s glasses blurs your sight.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
My biggest pet-peeve is when the comforter escapes from the duvet cover enclosures and ends up as a wadded mess that distorts the entire bedding set up.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
How Strategic Silence Damages Organizations Silence distorts decision-making.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
When the secretary bypasses or distorts that structure, the guidance loses its claim to legitimacy.
—Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
Freedom from want mattered because deprivation distorts judgment.
—Philip Martin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
That pressure distorts the justice system.
—Jaime Huff, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
At the heart of concerns is the low free float of Indonesian equities, given the country’s biggest companies are thinly traded and controlled by a handful of wealthy individuals—a structure that investors say distorts the index and risks manipulation.
—Prima Wirayani, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
That warping distorts the image in the same way that wearing someone else’s glasses blurs your sight.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
My biggest pet-peeve is when the comforter escapes from the duvet cover enclosures and ends up as a wadded mess that distorts the entire bedding set up.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
How Strategic Silence Damages Organizations Silence distorts decision-making.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
When the secretary bypasses or distorts that structure, the guidance loses its claim to legitimacy.
—Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
Freedom from want mattered because deprivation distorts judgment.
—Philip Martin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorts
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Following a misleading report on hospital finances, The Denver Post published an editorial that misrepresents UCHealth’s role in caring for Colorado patients and misstates key facts about our financial operations.—
Elizabeth B. Concordia,
Denver Post,
29 Dec. 2025
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The Washington Post is currently pioneering the field of AI slop podcasts, allowing users to generate audio content that, according to staffers, is full of errors and misrepresents articles by the newspaper’s actual reporters.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2025
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Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.—
Rachael Seidler,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2026
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Conventional drones hit their limits at around 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) as their frame deforms and electronics fail.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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At this point, you’d be forgiven for expecting a straightforward werewolf story, but Cassidy’s novel stretches and contorts into something far stranger, more audacious, and ultimately, both heartbreaking and triumphant.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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With an almost modern-day Charlie Chaplin-esque physicality, Moss dances, contorts, and frolics amongst the shoes, their boxes, and fixtures in the store for a mesmerizing, can't-look-away effect.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Their gravity warps space and time around them so much that no information from their confines can escape back out to the wider universe.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
27 Jan. 2026
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As Albert Einstein predicted in his theory of General Relativity, gravity warps the fabric of space-time.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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The retrospection tortures her.—
Alexandra Rockey Fleming,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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Later, in one of the movie's most satisfying scenes, Millie locks Andrew in the attic and tortures him by loudly smashing each plate.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Distorts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorts. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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