Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, an improper method of fastening type in a chase, by which the lines are put askew or made to hang or bow.
- noun In gilding, the process of removing superfluous gold-leaf from parts of a surface, and of patching pieces upon spots where the gold-leaf has failed to adhere. It is performed by means of a brush, and precedes burnishing.
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- verb Present participle of
skew .
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Examples
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He claims the "political press" has attributed magical properties to such monies in skewing outcomes -- and that the republic is safe.
Nigel Hamilton: David Brooks: Soft in the Head Nigel Hamilton 2010
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He claims the "political press" has attributed magical properties to such monies in skewing outcomes -- and that the republic is safe.
Nigel Hamilton: David Brooks: Soft in the Head Nigel Hamilton 2010
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We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked.
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We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked.
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We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked.
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We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked.
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We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked.
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So her name inevitably surfaced after Smith started mulling the idea of skewing young with the cast.
A hot season for June Peter Marks 2010
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Echoing the idea that men were the chief victims of the Great Recession, AEI resident scholar and author of "The War Against Boys" Christina Hoff Sommers accused feminists of "skewing" President Obama's initial stimulus plan by insisting on equal treatment for women, who in "mancession" logic did not need the jobs as much as men.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O'Connor 2010
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Echoing the idea that men were the chief victims of the Great Recession, AEI resident scholar and author of "The War Against Boys" Christina Hoff Sommers accused feminists of "skewing" President Obama's initial stimulus plan by insisting on equal treatment for women, who in "mancession" logic did not need the jobs as much as men.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O 2010
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