Are you going to sand and finish the flooring? If it is unfinished and has square edges you can use a block plane to skin off the edge of each board where the groove is. Each row that you skim will help get back on track. You will only need to plane one end of the room and taper it off as you work from one end to the other. Its possible to take off almost an eighth of an inch and still have the boards fit together. An electric planer works, too. If you are using pre-finished flooring you can still take some of the micro-bevel off, but very little. The tongue side will not be accessible to planing so where the boards join will look off balanced if just one side is planed. Another way to correct the alignment is to leave micro gaps where you need to "stretch" one side of the room. A half inch would need to be worked on over a long distance, so you may be out of luck.
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