distortion

Example Sentences

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"The distortion tends to be highest among younger respondents."

From BBC

A dollop of tax reform, a big dose of deregulation and an AI investment boom are allowing the economy to cope with the tariff distortions and uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal

The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the model has had a difficult time handling distortions that occurred in the pandemic’s aftermath, where at first a large number of businesses were started, but then business births and deaths quickly normalized.

From The Wall Street Journal

Chinese indexes were mixed after inflation data rekindled deflation worries, though seasonal distortions were a major driver of the soft print.

From The Wall Street Journal