distortion
Example Sentences
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The dominant image of Coachella as a teeming court of celebrities and influencers is less reality than distortion, itself a byproduct of the version of Coachella defined by what gets captured, circulated and remembered afterward.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
Third, the whole idea is malarkey—a half-witted distortion of fairly conventional deterrence theory.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
China Daily’s reporting on the emotional economy also included warnings from scholars and commentators that emotional value is hard to measure consistently, creating room for price distortion, impulse buying, and speculative excess.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
The study suggests this distortion is caused by the planet's rapid rotation along with the large amount of material it drags through space.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
Arid I don’t mean that as a distortion, like she always says I do.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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