tilt at
phrasal verb
tilted at; tilting at; tilts at
British
: to attack (someone or something) in writing or speech
critics tilting at the established system
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Where And When To Expect Dangerous Heat On this day with the longest duration of daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth is tilted at its maximum angle towards the sun and marks the start of astronomical summer.
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
These are tax cuts overwhelmingly tilted at the top.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 22 May 2025
His glasses were fogged up, tilted at an angle across the pointed frame of his nose.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 10 June 2025
The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
These are tax cuts overwhelmingly tilted at the top.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 22 May 2025
His glasses were fogged up, tilted at an angle across the pointed frame of his nose.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 10 June 2025
The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for tilt at
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“Tilt at.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tilt%20at. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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