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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
distort .
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Examples
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Finkelstein distorts the meaning of collective punishment and so doyou.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel 2010
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I would be interested to know how the pharaphrase distorts what you say.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I looked up the franchise tag - from what I read , all the O' line is grouped together. for example, if a team franchises a guard , he is payed as equal to a top five tackle, when I believe it's an NFL truism that tackles are more important. same for halfback / fullbacks. and linebackers. the tag somewhat distorts a teams salary structure in such cases , thou it's very fudgeable.
NY Daily News 2011
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I am interested particularly in how recall distorts to smooth things out, to alter the old, harsh meanings into new, pleasant forms reminiscent of Hallmark greeting cards.
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M. O'BRIEN: All right, let's -- I want to -- this whole notion of things happened before and after the camera on and the camera kind of distorts things, I've been trying to think of what could have happened before that camera was there that could have justified what I saw, and I can't think of anything.
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Well, I guess part of it is just due to the mark-to-market timing effects that kind of distorts some of the numbers from the prior quarter.
unknown title 2011
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Defective Boss AC-2 - 7.5/10 cosmetics, working but kind of distorts at some point when you strum -
TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician 2010
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A radical depature in the series direction kind of distorts the integrity of my charts, but you can see that this title is the true black sheep in the family.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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A radical depature in the series direction kind of distorts the integrity of my charts, but you can see that this title is the true black sheep in the family.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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First, OOO rejects the correlationist claim that somehow there's something special about the human-object relation and the way in which the mind "distorts" the thing-in-itself.
Larval Subjects . 2010
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