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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. skew, skewedverb

    having an oblique or slanting direction or position

    "the picture was skew"

    Synonyms:
    skewed

    Antonyms:
    vertical, horizontal, perpendicular, line up, aline, adjust, align

  2. skewverb

    turn or place at an angle

    "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"

    Antonyms:
    horizontal, perpendicular, vertical, line up, adjust, align, aline

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PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "skew":

    bias, distort, distortion

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How to use skew in a sentence?

  1. Nicole Sherrod:

    It's a demographic that is very much into tech, so it's not shocking that it tends to skew much higher in their portfolios, take something like Tesla: It's something hot that millennials covet, and although they may not have the purchasing power to buy the car yet, they can certainly buy the stock.

  2. Mandy Xu:

    For the S&P, using one month options, skew is in the 95th percentile.

  3. Shane Dormady:

    I think you have a subset of patients who are being screened earlier with colonoscopies; you have advancing technology where we can potentially detect tumor cell DNA in the stool sample, which is leading to earlier diagnosis. And sometimes that effect will skew statistics and make it look like the incidence is really on the rise, but deeper analysis shows you that part of that is due to earlier detection and more screening, so that could be one facet of the equation.

  4. Paul Lipson:

    Our primary voters in the district skew older and slightly, every so slightly more socially conservative than you might expect in such a thoroughly Democratic district.

  5. Mike Tildesley:

    You may see a skew in the age distribution of cases ; as you get higher levels of vaccination in the elderly, you're more likely to see younger people getting infected, i mean, it's not going to increase the number in that age group to compensate, but it may be that you see an increased proportion.


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