misalign

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Recent Examples of misalign Sometimes, Player Item portraits could have appeared misaligned with the rest of the Player Item during the walkout animation. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 As artificial intelligence has become more powerful in recent years, concerns have grown that AI systems might begin to act in ways that are misaligned with human interests and that humans might lose control of these systems. Rob Toews, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 When coils are misaligned, energy is often lost as heat, which is also not good for battery health. Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2024 According to the complaint, aviation officials found the A321 aircraft's water system had a valve flange that was misaligned, subsequently causing a leak that turned to ice at the plane's altitude. Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misalign
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Verb
  • The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Written in black and white, the attacks look deranged.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 May 2023
  • The busy, fevered covers—everyone looks deranged—practically shout for a browser’s attention, in contrast to the subtler ones gracing later Clowes books like Wilson (2010) and Patience (2016).
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • Next, the researchers looked at the relationship between the frequency of use of these apps and disordered eating, body image, and compulsive exercise.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But mimicking this behavior and expecting similar results could set young adults up for disappointment or disordered eating habits.
    Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Misalign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misalign. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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