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Shoehorning
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Shoehorning
The practice of picking and choosing data to fit a previous prediction. For example, if one predicts a recession but the recession does not materialize, one may identify negative economic information to "prove" that the recession (or at least a slowdown) really happened. Shoehorning connotes ignoring contradictory data.


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She shoehorned her slender frame into the cosmic gear but it clung in all the wrong places.
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