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1 | 99% | 4 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 36% | 8 | Tendency to lean in a certain direction | |
3 | 26% | 6 | One who has a tendency to lean or slant in a particular direction. | |
Lean A Certain Direction Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "SKEW" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Having an oblique or slanting direction or position verb
- • Turn or place at an angle noun
- • Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- • An oblique or sideways movement.
- • A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- • A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- • A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- • A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- • The coping of a gable.
- • One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable. adjective
- • Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
- • Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- • Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean. adverb
- • Askew, obliquely; awry.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He skewed the data to support his argument."
- • "The biased reporter skewed the information to fit his narrative."
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