distort

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Those two categories can swing up and down abruptly in the short run and distort inflation readings — precisely what oil is likely to do in the next few months.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

Under our feet, massive anomalies distort our planet’s magnetic field: Manhattan-size rocks, colossal buried meteorites, chunks of crust that solidified when the poles were flipped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Increasingly, though, they use AI to distort reality.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Last month, he published a paper that found that advanced AI tools can disempower users and distort their sense of reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“Should you fail to do what Capricorn asks, should it occur to you to stumble over the words on purpose, or distort them so the guest Capricorn is expecting does not come, then...”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke