DISTORTING Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

distorting

verb

present participle of distort

as in misrepresenting

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 deforming

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 distorting But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026 But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026 China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026 The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 In November 2020, Lupe was in the final weeks of her pregnancy when dark spots began distorting her vision. — Carina Heckert, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 The least costly and least distorting way to solve the entire financing gap is to extend Social Security's base beyond paychecks to capital income -- capital gains, dividends, interest and pass-through business income. — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Is realism based only on minds untouched by illness or some other distorting factor, or at least not so touched that that mind becomes, as my grandmother’s is, unbound? — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

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But Amendment 83 has drawn an especially stark contrast between two types of Colorado’s hunters, with each claiming that the other is misrepresenting the interest of both the public and Centennial State hunters and anglers.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Settlement talks collapsed in late August after Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting their discussions.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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These new defects let the material keep deforming safely under extreme pressure instead of snapping.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
The two valves must then pass one another midway through their strokes, briefly deforming to squeeze past each other before resuming their pumping roles.

— Mike McRae October 12, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026

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Scientists at Northwestern University in the US and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have discovered a consistent anchor point on tau proteins where the molecules meet before contorting into a pathogenic shape.

— Mike McRae October 13, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026
There’s a slickness to the carnage that rubs uncomfortably against the film’s humanist ethos, rendering artificial (for all Shen Teng’s trembling and mouth-contorting labors) the horrific tragedies that befall its characters.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

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Unlike MacKay’s Ferrars, seemingly the more loyal and irreproachable type, both men end up screwing over the Dashwoods in their own ways.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2026
In a video from March 4, 2019, her co-worker David Xu can be seen approaching her desk, pouring a substance into the bottle, screwing the lid back on and quickly walking away.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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Guevara has never been charged with a crime in connection with allegedly torturing supsects, and the statute of limitations has long since expired on any such charges, Felker said.

— Chris Tye, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
In 1996, Pike was found guilty of first-degree murder for beating, torturing and killing Slemmer, a fellow Jobs Corps worker, in a remote area of the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

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Diaby scored the winner on a nifty shot from outside the box, curling it into the top right corner of the net for his second goal in his eighth MLS match.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin, meanwhile, became the first American team to win a medal in Olympic mixed doubles curling, taking silver.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of curling

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At the same time, the currents of self-optimization and growing conservatism are warping the status quo toward a curve-free catwalk.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Since the turn of the millennium, Latin America has become a hotbed of electronic dance music, warping countless homegrown rhythms at block parties, bedrooms, and mega clubs across the region.

— Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026

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