screw

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screw
Verb
  • Noise can distort observations and introduce uncertainties into the data, Zhang said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • The history of financial regulation has clarified the problems with this approach, but somehow that history still gets badly distorted.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.
    Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.
    Angela Jackson, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • What if the other side was deformed or even missing?
    Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025
  • The tree resin then sank to the seafloor where it was covered by sediments, deforming the single fragments and preserving them as amber.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The responsibility and reasoning behind infidelity lie solely with the person who cheated.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • After reconciling, the former couple still faced several challenges, including cheating allegations and public social media fallouts.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • At a hearing last month, House Foreign Affairs ranking Democrat Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said Rubio had contorted himself to justify Trump’s actions.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • One way to create more space and the illusion of a bigger room is to invest in space-saving furniture and clever gadgets that fold, hang, and contort to make your place more functional.
    Shalwah Evans, People.com, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • The defending champion Philadelphia Eagles have drawn the blueprint on perpetually pouring resources into the front seven on defense, consistently plucking players from SEC schools and throwing them onto an assembly line of quarterback mashers.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Women dominate the lower tiers of tea labor, from plucking to packaging and remain vastly underrepresented in management, ownership, or policy influence.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 31 May 2025
  • Afro hair transplant Afro hair requires unique techniques due to curl pattern and follicle structure.
    Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • And while other candidates have brought up the allegations and hit at Cuomo's record, no one attack seems to be sticking, and polling shows that Cuomo remains the front-runner.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 4 June 2025
  • Only a year ago, Google released AI Overviews, a search feature that told users to eat rocks and use glue to stick cheese to pizza.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 June 2025
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