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as in to misrepresent
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible
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as in to deform
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position
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Recent Examples of distort
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Corson proceeded to inform the court of Petersen’s previous convictions in 2016 and 2017 when she was charged with misrepresenting herself as her sister when stopped by law enforcement.—
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If users can’t verify sources or if AI search engines misrepresent information, misinformation becomes harder to combat.—
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Doesn’t further engagement with the Holocaust threaten to deform me?—
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What to Listen For: The wind whipping through the forest at the summit, so strong and constant that the peak’s red spruces have become deformed and only have branches and nettles on one side.—
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At the start of the production, when Blanche arrives at her sister’s dumpy apartment, a lithe young man (Jabez Sykes) contorts himself in abstract choreography.—
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The dancers contorted themselves accordingly: ohh eee enn owooooooo.—
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While some can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and concerns, many are created with specific consumers and their needs in mind.—
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Denmark’s Anders Dreyer, the team’s goal leader with three, curled a free kick into the box.—
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That’s a surefire way to bend the brim and otherwise misshape it.—
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The misshapen hemoglobin misshape the cells.—
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For all other materials, the heat can cause materials to melt, shrink, or warp.—
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The most promising technique for detecting these bodies is microlensing, whereby a rogue planet warps the light from a star in a telltale fashion to reveal its presence.—
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“Distort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distort. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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