deformed

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This extensive reorganization produces a highly deformed nuclear shape.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Sun, however, had a problem: a deformed finger that slowed him down and drew the ire of his overseers.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Further investigation revealed that eight frames, the ribs of the ship's structural skeleton, were deformed and that more steel replacement was required.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

His deformed spine was removed and sent to the Royal College of Surgeons where–and now here’s an irony for you–it was placed in the care of Richard Owen, director of the college’s Hunterian Museum.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson