skew
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Odds of such a skew occurring by chance are about 1 in 6.5 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Those numbers are merely going to skew further.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Because all monitored newsletters pay the same flat fee, my firm has no incentive to skew any newsletter’s returns better or worse than another.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
The theory behind it is how it separates teams on the result of the match between them, filtering out potentially big scorelines from other matches which can skew goal difference.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I ask, using an editing app to clone, enlarge, flip, skew, and totally mutate his picture until he looks like some bizarre freakoid.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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It is notably different from the men's game, which skews male and older.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The audience Kalshi is attracting is different from its typical trader base, which skews heavily toward males.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
But it’s consistent with a growing body of research in the behavioral economics field showing how our mood skews our decision-making.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
That shift leaves Kering more exposed than rivals such as Hermès or Chanel, whose clientele skews further upmarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
As I watch, a small explosion flashes from the launch port and one shuttle dock rail skews to one side, while the other completely detaches.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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“This apparent standoff between the bulls and the bears reflects short-term temperature outlooks that are only slightly skewed in a bullish direction,” Ritterbusch & Associates says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Core PCE strips out food and energy, but it can still be skewed by a handful of unusually large price moves.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Our guys wanted to start the game fast. The stadium felt like a home game but all of this energy skewed our risk management," Barry said.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
He said the pope risked seeing "a completely skewed reality" if he met only with victims assisted by the Repara project of the archdiocese of Madrid.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
His hair has been combed hard to one side, and his loose cotton shirt has bunched up behind his shoulders so that his collar is skewed.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The updated L9 is off to a solid start, attracting about 10,000 orders in its first two weeks, with demand skewing toward higher-end variants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Since the indexes are weighted by market cap, migrations prevent large companies from dramatically skewing the performance of indexes meant for smaller companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Notably, independent voters’ views on immigration are skewing more in line with Democrats’, according to the poll.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Experts said that YouGov's methodology - gathering data from volunteers who received cash rewards for their time - left it vulnerable to "bogus respondents" skewing the data.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
I braced my feet farther apart when it felt like the ground was skewing to the left.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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