distort

Example Sentences

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The headline rate continues to be distorted by a surge in electricity price inflation, reflecting the phasing out of government energy rebates, the data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal

AFP's Fact Check team has noted a surge of such imagery on social networks, distorting the history of Nazi Germany's murder of six million European Jews during World War II.

From Barron's

Pepin-Neff adds that broad, imprecise language around encounters is likely fuelling fears and distorting people's understanding of the risk.

From BBC

Its wartime economy, highly distorted and slowing, has become more centralized and less productive.

From Barron's

China is advancing its version through regional investment and infrastructure networks that echo—while distorting—the U.S. template.

From Barron's