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verb

past tense of slant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slanted
Adjective
  • As spring training was beginning, Walker suffered a low-grade oblique injury.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article PEORIA, Ariz. — Matt Waldron didn’t even want to think about what a severe oblique injury would mean.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, with a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27, and the S&P 500 Index’s P/E at 24, are both distorted by tech stocks, such as Nvidia (NVDA).
    Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Has that distorted the trajectory of his adult life?
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The people here prefer to be crooked while pretending to be holy.
    Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
  • My tween self wrote a letter to myself stating that my ideal person would have a crooked smile, a sense of humor, honest eyes and a creative palate.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Stores are not legally required to accept exchanges or give refunds unless the merchandise was defective or misrepresented.
    Rick Walz, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The main story is very strangely uneven, the routes and caves are often straight pathways with little in them, and none of it is really difficult at all.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The formula’s thicker consistency also smooths the nail out, filling in any ridges and uneven texture of the polish.
    Siena Gagliano, Allure, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Wartime letters sent by my father to my mother at her family home in Chicago, written in his own hand on Navy letterhead, the precise print of an engineer, angled slightly to the right.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Midcentury tissue box covers feature clerestory windows, angled rooflines,and patterned concrete block designs.
    Eric Noll, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The top-left to bottom-right diagonal displays winning percentages in Round of 64 matchups, which provide the most data.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The unmarked Thompson sent a 7-yard diagonal shot off her right instep to Sheridan’s right.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Slanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slanted. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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