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slanted

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verb

past tense of slant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slanted
Adjective
  • Utility man Romy Gonzalez, who suffered a minor oblique injury last week, is also expected to be ready by Opening Day.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But Jeff McNeil’s oblique injury and Nick Madrigal’s shoulder surgery opened up two infield spots.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 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
  • Tampa Bay is one of the most crooked places in America, according to fraud report data from the Federal Trade Commission.
    Martin Vassolo, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Talley also said the pathway of the bullet as the pathologist in the case testified disproves any legal theory that Ferguson’s arm was crooked at a 45-degree angle.
    Hetty Chang, NBC News, 14 Mar. 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
  • Nationally, learning loss recovery has been slow and uneven, especially among students of color, Axios' Russell Contreras reported.
    Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This, coupled with the indirect cooking required when smoking, led to uneven cooking times.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 19 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
  • For a square, its longest possible cut is across the diagonal.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Michail Antonio broke away on the left wing with a clear, diagonal run towards goal.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Slanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slanted. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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