Distort Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "SKEW" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Having an oblique or slanting direction or position
verb
• • Turn or place at an angle
noun
• • Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
• • An oblique or sideways movement.
• • A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
• • A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
• • A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
• • A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
• • The coping of a gable.
• • One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
adjective
• • Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
• • Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
• • Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
adverb
• • Askew, obliquely; awry.

An example sentence would be:

• • "He skewed the data to support his argument."
• • "The biased reporter skewed the information to fit his narrative."

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