distort
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Researchers warn that AI deepfakes -- used to target global leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky -- can influence voter turnout and distort geopolitical events.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
“All powerful people,” she wrote, “could do anything: kill, distort, pervert. . . . But they had no means to influence history, no matter how omnipotent they were.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
They also stretch and distort the mantle material itself.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
Until October 2025, the wages paid to H-2A workers were, although low, not so low as to distort the labor market and drag down the wages paid to domestic farmworkers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Finally, he found a new route and started to jog along it, his wandlight waving, making his shadow flicker and distort on the hedge walls.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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