kilter
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For some, the Treasury Department’s response only added to the sense of a typically staid market gone disturbingly off kilter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
What about the balance of the XI, knocked so badly out of kilter when Stokes missed the second Test at The Oval?
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Loren Cain, who was born and raised in Orem and studied at Utah Valley University, said the world feels off kilter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
"And the cost of renting is completely out of kilter with what you earn. So living like this is an alternative. It's less comfortable, but it allows me to keep living on the island."
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
This is mostly because everything’s out of kilter here.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing kilter
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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