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Princeton's WordNet

  1. distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twistingnoun

    the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

  2. spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirladjective

    the act of rotating rapidly

    "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"

  3. tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminousadjective

    marked by repeated turns and bends

    "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

Wiktionary

  1. twistingadjective

    Having many twists

    The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.

ChatGPT

  1. twisting

    Twisting generally refers to the action or process of rotating or turning something around its axis, distorting its original shape or form, or changing its original character or meaning. It could also refer to the stress caused by an object due to torsion or rotation. Its meaning often varies in different scenarios and contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Twisting

    of Twist

  2. Twisting

    a. & n. from Twist

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twisting in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twisting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of twisting in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Lillis:

    This has been a three-year process for us, for me getting ready for this Olympic Games and being able to throw those quintuple twisting triples, i was just happy to get the opportunity to throw one and to put it down.

  2. Riccardo Designori:

    There's quite a lot of money on balance sheets in Europe. If companies are reluctant to put it to work, they risk seeing activists twisting their arm to launch buyback plans, there's also a huge potential for restructuring and mergers, and activist funds are starting to shake up things and accelerate the process.

  3. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

    There are 10 to 12 Republicans who have never said a bad word about witnesses or documents, who know in their hearts it's the right thing to do. But they have to weigh that against the pressure, the twisting of arms, that Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell will put on Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.

  4. Philistine Ayad:

    I don't see ISIS as Muslim. I see terrorists when I look at ISIS, to me, terror knows no religion. They are picking and choosing aspects of the religion and twisting and distorting them in order to justify their actions that are unjustifiable.

  5. The Republicans:

    We're not home and dry yet, especially since the election is being run in an unfair way, to pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see.

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