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How to use the word SKEWED in a Sentence?

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This idea that Alex Murdaugh has never attempted to flee – that's a skewed view of reality here. Suicide is the ultimate attempt to flee, the money that was misappropriated and stolen from them wasn't just fun money, it wasn't just 'I'm going to go to Las Vegas and gamble' money. This was money that was supposed to be used to compensate them for injuries, so that they could afford medical care.

Justin Bramberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The bigger issues aren’t unique to the NFL, but I think they are stark in the NFL: Who’s in positions of power? And who’s making decisions? When that is only one group, particularly people who are privileged, who are from the dominant group, then those are going to likely be skewed decisions and skewed world views, it’s easy to point to Gruden and go, ‘Oh, isn’t he terrible?’ and ‘Look at the terrible things he did.’ But that doesn’t look at that larger culture, where people were participating with him. People were allowing these emails to exist. It really is about the whole culture and that sense, that I’m sure people have cultivated, to feel like, ‘I can say these things and they will be, at best, appreciated and reciprocated or, at worst, people may not appreciate them but nothing’s going to happen.’ And that is about privilege and entitlement.

Diane Goodman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Drugs and alcohol are not the problems, they’re merely symptoms of the problem. And once those things go away, the real work begins, you know … working on all the character defects, the moral compass — the skewed moral compass.

Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As states increasingly ease mitigation protocols and the U.S. flirts with herd immunity this summer, consumer spending will become less skewed in favor of goods consumption, which will help alleviate shortages of materials, further vaccine progress will reduce fears of contracting and spreading COVID-19, which is holding back some 4 million adults from re-joining the workforce.

Bernard Yaros

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Overall I think markets are still skewed to taking on risk, and I don’t think we’ve seen the final record high by any means in the U.S. stock market or in global equities, at the end of the day, (the selloff earlier this week) was just markets whipping around as the froth has blown off risk assets.

Kyle Rodda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Over the last four years the world has skewed dramatically to the right on the question of enforcement -- the wall, we have enough Border Patrol [ agents ] to put hands across the border almost, and [ more ] ICE agents, and the' stay in Mexico' policy, the list is endless, on the enforcement side, that's all we've had for the last four years. It's a recognition that there has been a lot of enforcement out there ; and second, a recognition there are better ways to do enforcement.

Bob Menendez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Amid a national policing crisis, we need to focus more attention than ever on reshaping how this country approaches public safety, this requires meaningful engagement with the public, and with all interested stakeholders. Today's ruling ensures that the government will not be able to evade the law to pursue a skewed agenda.

Natasha Merle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The premier's words are always skewed by you local-level people.

Wang Yihu

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The premier has already given us support. The power of the Beijing city government couldn't be stronger than the State Council right? the premier's words are always skewed by you local-level people.

Wang Yihu

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

On the internet, the balance between freedom of speech and dignity is completely skewed, with no protection in place for personal dignity.

Daisuke Tsuda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It's not going to happen anytime soon because approximately one out of three Amazon packages is still delivered by the Postal Service, and it will be skewed towards the places where it's more expensive for them to do it themselves.

Robert Fisher

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We can outperform on a relative basis regardless of the environment, although risks are more skewed to the down side given ... risks like coronavirus, we are confident that the strength of our operating model will continue to demonstrate strength.

Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Piepszak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Shandong economy is skewed toward gritty smoke-stack industries where companies are typically highly leveraged, we view the plight of Shandong POEs (privately owned enterprises) as indicative of China's wider challenge: the difficulty of transitioning to a higher value-added economy, while managing high debt and slowing growth.

Chang Li

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The risks are skewed to the upside through the end of the year.

Michael Tran

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think in public spaces there’s an opportunity for it to be skewed as to what exactly it represents.

Hezekiah Jackson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I feel my perspective will be twisted if discussing the skewed video which cut out part of the incident. … If you would like to have a full normal interview about the displacement of European-Americans then I gladly am available to enlighten the public.

Tarrin Olson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thomas Cook, for example, is heavily skewed toward Turkey, whereas airlines can benefit from a more geographical spread, with this being the start of the holiday season and normally a busy time for tour operators, we could see more pressure as many change travel plans.

Atif Latif

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Results are coming from certain districts of the U.K. that actually are fairly skewed one way or the other, and there is huge volatility in the pound and in the yen. I think that sort of set the tone for the morning.

Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When a currency...squeezes higher quickly, causing investors to panic and abandon their positions, the rally could be sharp and aggressive particularly when positions are skewed so heavily in the opposite direction.

Kathy Lien

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People who utilize medical services the most are going to be diagnosed with more diseases, because people with insurance get the most mammograms, a cancer registry’s breast cancer incidence reporting will be skewed toward people with access to good health care services.

Olufunmilayo Olopade

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The momentum is still skewed to the positive despite the earnings data and some of the mixed economic data.

Anthony Valeri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't arrange lawyers for them; that is not so, that the system or the way it works is skewed to assist athletes is just simply not accurate. The system is fair-minded, fair-handed (and) provides due process to all involved.

Bill Ramsey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Today's NODX print reinforced our view that risks to the growth outlook is clearly skewed to the downside and could possibly elicit a further calibration in policy settings.

Weiwen Ng

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bias could be skewed towards the downside and most of the bets may also be anchored towards this direction.

Naeem Aslam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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