slant
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5.1
- noun
- /slænt/
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- Let me explain why it's so important that I get the right slant on this.
- a political slant
- a liberal slant
- a partisan slant
And I'm reading the same news but different slants.
- And I'm reading the same news but different slants.
- That's, you know, that's the different slant on it.
- But my point being that it kind of takes the positive moral slant out of it.
- I mean, you know, it's not so much that that we're dealing with news that's presented from a certain slant.
- And I just did one the other day and the guy kind of, you know, basically like a Paleo slant podcast.
- We have our ways of telling telling It's slant, right?
- And our view of American exceptionalism has a real capitalistic slant where if you are a billionaire, then you one capitalism.
Examples
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You got the right slant.
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Depending on the slant, you should share your expertise and research with readers.
Academic text (2009) -
But my point being that it kind of takes the positive moral slant out of it.
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However, over the last 50 years, educational policy has taken more of a national slant.
Academic text (2014) -
Do you, do you agree that the media has a very left slant and do you think that that's a good thing?
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The discussion continued for some time, with the slant of perspectives shifting back and forth.
Academic text (1993) -
I strongly disagree with the paper's ideological slant, but I still find it essential reading.
Blog text (16) -
I don't want any slant, any bias on our coverage of my case or of Krasny.
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OK, she's put a 21st-century slant on it, but she's not really doing anything that Bowie didn't do 40 years ago.
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The article provides a unique slant on the recent political events that many readers had not considered.
Synonyms
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1.5
A personal opinion or belief about something
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4.1
A way of thinking shaped by your beliefs or experiences
318
4.8
A particular way of looking at or presenting a situation
145
7.5
A way of showing information to make it seem more positive
129
4.1
A person's way of thinking about something
16
4.4
A small preference for one side or point of view
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5.5
News that shows one side instead of being fair
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9.7
A way of showing a strong one-sided point of view
Antonyms
Compounds
How Biased
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6.2
65
7.4
14
5.1
- Specialized
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5.2
11
5.3
22
4.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slant for a point of view comes from the picture of something leaning or tilting meaning 'leaning to one side', so a slant on a story is a view that is not straight or neutral.