distort
Example Sentences
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But many on Wall Street noted the reports, delayed by this fall’s government shutdown, offered a distorted readout on the economy.
As Thursday’s admittedly distorted consumer-price index report showed, inflation simply isn’t behaving badly.
However, analysts said disruptions to data collection during the longest-ever US government shutdown, which ended in mid-November, had likely distorted the figures.
From Barron's
A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said the legislation was “overstretching the concept of national security” and would “distort normal investment flows between the two countries.”
That’s one of the reasons why the cover of his reintroduction project, “Genesis,” features a distorted forest instead of his face.
From Los Angeles Times
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