kilter
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The long flights and early start have thrown each teams' regular routine out of kilter.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
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
"These are things that we didn't recommend for the other parts of the UK because they are so far out of kilter with the steps we feel the country needs to take over all."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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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