correct a distortion
Frequency: 7.08.5 per million words
to fix or remove a misrepresentation of facts
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Examples (10)
- The newspaper was forced to print a retraction to correct a gross distortion of the facts.
- Historians work diligently to correct historical distortions and present a more accurate account of the past.
- The lawyer's primary role was to correct the distortion created by the witness's testimony.
- I had to interrupt him to correct a distortion of what I had actually said.
- In my next statement, I will correct the distortion that has been spread by the media.
- This academic paper aims to correct a long-standing distortion in the understanding of the artist's early work.
- The scientific community has worked for years to correct the public's distortion of climate change data.
- As a journalist, it is your duty to correct any distortion of the truth immediately.
- Correcting the distortion of scientific facts is crucial for public policy.
- If we don't correct this distortion now, it will become accepted as truth.