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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His glasses were fogged up, tilted at an angle across the pointed frame of his nose.
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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
The recent Hubble image captures NGC 5530 tilted at a slight angle.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Rather, its orbit is slightly cockeyed, tilted at an angle of 5.145 degrees.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
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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
The recent Hubble image captures NGC 5530 tilted at a slight angle.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Rather, its orbit is slightly cockeyed, tilted at an angle of 5.145 degrees.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Tilt at.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tilt%20at. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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