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The U.S. possesses many tools to remedy practices that distort trade and undermine reciprocity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Warsh explained his skepticism of forward guidance last week by suggesting it can distort the message the central bank receives from financial markets, according to Ryan Swift, chief bond strategist at BCA Research.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Deming goes old school to distort Reilly’s focus and bombard him with harsh spotlights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Schlamminger skipped the conference's morning sessions, preoccupied with worries about temperature fluctuations, pressure changes, and other tiny effects that might distort the results.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

Even when I quote them accurately, I profoundly distort my parents’ words.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

“Corruption doesn’t just slow progress, it distorts it. It raises costs, weakens competition, and erodes the trust that markets depend on. It’s not a victimless problem,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

"J1007+3540 is one of the clearest and most spectacular examples of episodic AGN with jet-cluster interaction, where the surrounding hot gas bends, compresses, and distorts the jets," Dr. Pal explained.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

"When you go through something like that so young it kind of distorts your reality for a long time," Pesante said.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Bad weather often distorts the jobs report by making it seem as if employment was weaker than it really was.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

It’s an example of how substantive tax reform can’t be done piecemeal when the code is so badly distorted to start with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Among them, the height to volume model was applied to heavily browsed willows with unusual growth forms, even though the model was not designed for such distorted shapes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

In some videos, the AI generates figures without limbs or produces grotesquely distorted faces.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

One caveat: The government shutdown last fall may have distorted the recent uptick in service prices, especially the cost of housing.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

“How could I be better for any of this?” he asked, horrified at how distorted and liquid his words sounded, as if he were speaking through the blowhole of a whale.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The jump in prices in certain sectors highlights the ways that the spending habits of the wealthy are distorting the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026

It lowers productivity and growth by obstructing the ability of human capital to find its best fit and by distorting consumption and investment patterns at the top.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Those subsidies, heavily criticised in the EU and US for distorting markets, have helped companies expand rapidly and cut prices.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

His side accused Lively of distorting events on set and filed a defamation suit seeking $400 million in damages against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and others.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

The surface of the bulge continued to crack and break, distorting from pressure underneath.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone