Synonyms for skew
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1. skew, skewedverb

   having an oblique or slanting direction or position

   "the picture was skew"

   Synonyms:
   skewed

   Antonyms:
   vertical, horizontal, perpendicular, line up, aline, adjust, align

2. skewverb

   turn or place at an angle

   "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"

   Antonyms:
   horizontal, perpendicular, vertical, line up, adjust, align, aline

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1. • Reorient

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1. List of paraphrases for "skew":

   bias, distort, distortion

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1. Robby Mook:

   In the terrain of Super Tuesday it's not just winning people of color, it's dominating, no one is going to dominate women -- it's not going to happen. You might do better with college-educated folks, some candidates will skew slightly female. Where there is potential for somebody to dominate is with African Americans.

2. Shane Dormady:

   I think you have a subset of patients who are being screened earlier with colonoscopies; you have advancing technology where we can potentially detect tumor cell DNA in the stool sample, which is leading to earlier diagnosis. And sometimes that effect will skew statistics and make it look like the incidence is really on the rise, but deeper analysis shows you that part of that is due to earlier detection and more screening, so that could be one facet of the equation.

3. Ryan Calo:

   The idea here is you can use some of these tools in order to skew reality in your favor, and I think that's what OpenAI worries about.

4. Nicole Sherrod:

   It's a demographic that is very much into tech, so it's not shocking that it tends to skew much higher in their portfolios, take something like Tesla: It's something hot that millennials covet, and although they may not have the purchasing power to buy the car yet, they can certainly buy the stock.

5. Morgan Stanley:

   Exceptionally strong refinery margins and a soft maintenance schedule may skew the normal seasonality of refinery runs and push more (price) weakness into early summer.