keel
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, he said “we’d be playing with fire if we didn’t comply. We’d feel pretty bad if a boy keeled over. I can hear them coughing and hacking.”
From Los Angeles Times
Now it is back on a more even keel.
From BBC
Tansy had us on an even keel now.
From Literature
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All the news—every bit of it—suggests Canada finding its way back to an even keel.
The only way to deploy this exhausting strategy without keeling over is to be fit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.