How to Use skewed in a Sentence

skewed

adjective
  • The question was, how skewed would the masses have to be?
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And so folks with more melanin have sort of skewed results.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In the last ten years, 3 ranked among the ten hottest and 7 skewed hotter than normal.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The film opens with promising, skewed angles on the city, and there are a few outdoor scenes at the end.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no plot to lock out Blacks and Latinos, just a system that’s skewed over time and can be fixed.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • Then the skewed court spun on its head to restart the IRC, which by a 9-1 vote ratified a map very close to the Cervas map.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The rules that will govern that race are important; if the field is skewed, the results will be, too.
    Fred P. Hochberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
  • There was no pork in the kitchen—Pimentel doesn’t eat it—and a portion of the menu skewed plant-based and vegan.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Our perception may start out skewed, but we’ll be brought back down to earth.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024
  • Swafford agreed, saying the data the state is asking for is skewed.
    Michael Wetzel The Decatur Daily, al, 5 Feb. 2023
  • If the data is biased or skewed, then the AI model will reflect that bias.
    Deepak Gupta, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Relying on local word-of-mouth or news sources can give ERM teams a skewed view of risks.
    David Benigson, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The pic skewed male, or 63 percent, as most superhero films do.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2024
  • Sports is still a bit more skewed white, straight and male, while Daytime, Children’s and News and Doc tend to be more diverse.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • But Rozell said that study was skewed because of the problems with Teachers of Tomorrow.
    Elaine S. Povich, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In the eastern half of the country, fundamentals such as house price-to-rent ratios were less skewed.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Once the election results firm up, von der Leyen will still need the support of 361 MEPs in the new parliament, which looks more skewed to the right than before.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 10 June 2024
  • The version of history offered by the Tokyo trial was a little skewed.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Auburn had more than five yards per carry as a team purely from skewed Payton Thorne data.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Judges are the best and final defense of a system that is inherently skewed.
    Ann Ravel, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • Month-to-month home prices tend to be volatile and seasonally skewed, which is why economists look at year-over-year price changes.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Thus, their numbers are somewhat skewed despite topping 120 points in their past two games.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The data sets that have been used to train AI are known to be skewed and biased, encoding prejudices and errors.
    Khari Johnson, WIRED, 5 July 2023
  • Relationships are skewed, in no small part due to the blunders of the matchmaking Emma.
    Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The group argues the tax plan is too skewed toward the wealthy rather than low-income residents who live in Haley’s district.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The cases all occurred in children under the age of 10 but skewed to preschool-age children, with the median age being around 2 years.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • The last two seasons are a little bit skewed based on guys that missed the entire season that weren’t fully in our rotation.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • His half-cracked grandeur, boosted by Smith’s skewed stares of adoration, sends the movie into a loopy giddiness.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Is social media giving us a skewed sense of what the public really thinks?
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
  • And even though its roots and classically skewed aesthetic are clearly America, the company has had a hard time regaining a foothold here.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024

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