misalign

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Recent Examples of misalign When coils are misaligned, energy is often lost as heat, which is also not good for battery health. Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2024 According to the complaint, aviation officials found the A321 aircraft's water system had a valve flange that was misaligned, subsequently causing a leak that turned to ice at the plane's altitude. Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2025 Sticking Doors and Windows Sticking doors and windows are a telltale sign that your home is shifting, which causes the doors and windows to be misaligned with their frames. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Jan. 2025 That happened because linebacker Edgerrin Cooper was misaligned before the snap in his first-ever NFL game. Matt Schneidman, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misalign
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Verb
  • The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Written in black and white, the attacks look deranged.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 May 2023
  • The busy, fevered covers—everyone looks deranged—practically shout for a browser’s attention, in contrast to the subtler ones gracing later Clowes books like Wilson (2010) and Patience (2016).
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • But mimicking this behavior and expecting similar results could set young adults up for disappointment or disordered eating habits.
    Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Research suggests that time spent on social networking sites is associated with body image issues, self-harm, and disordered eating in children and teens.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Misalign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misalign. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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