off-balance

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Senior Ray Pelayo of San Fernando kept throwing strikes, keeping El Camino Real off balance for 7⅔ scoreless innings with eight strikeouts and one walk.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Styles sings of relationships that are constantly off balance.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

On “The Bear,” his last guest star role, Albert Schnur knocks our trust off balance by swooping into Ebra’s life, expecting to find disorganization, and enthusiastically respecting that Ebra has his act together.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

Banks are also beautifying their books through “significant risk transfers,” or SRTs, that shift potentially dodgier assets off balance sheet.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

But it was Kate who saw one first: Martina had taken an awkward step, was slightly off balance.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart