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as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
he's nice enough, but there's something a little off-kilter about him
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as in uneven
inclined or twisted to one side
to me, the painting on the wall looks a little off-kilter
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Recent Examples of off-kilter
When the control room programmed the flight deck to re-create full turbulence, the steady waves suddenly turned chaotic, off-kilter, completely unpredictable.
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Her scenes this season were mostly involving very detuned and off-kilter piano.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
Keough alone could carry the film, embodying the most peculiar mix of lust and off-kilter desire in her baby-blue thigh high boots.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2026
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Her scenes this season were mostly involving very detuned and off-kilter piano.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
Keough alone could carry the film, embodying the most peculiar mix of lust and off-kilter desire in her baby-blue thigh high boots.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-kilter
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But some of the violations are anything but mundane, hiding records that might shed light on some of DeSantis’ most bizarre and offensive stunts.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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This is no small feat, given that real-life Silicon Valley stories often seem too bizarre to be true.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2026
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Everything—from the squat, one-story structure to the station wagon parked outside—had been coated in the same uneven layer of white paint, as if someone had tried, hurriedly, to erase it from the landscape.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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However, adoption remains uneven across sectors, reflecting differences in digital readiness and creating varied credit implications.—
Lee Ying Shan,Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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The strange circumstances of his last weeks have the quality of a nightmare from which the Samsas awake.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But his arrest and conviction in 2024 had been preceded a year earlier by a strange story that appeared in the press and then disappeared almost as quickly.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Escalade also offers a large head up display and a tilted control panel to provide quick access to climate and other functions.—
Scotty Reiss,
Parents,
24 Feb. 2026
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Naturally, Uranus' tilted rotation has a part to play in how auroral activity manifests on the planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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But the advent of Norris-as-meme had the weird benefit of shielding him from the fallout of his own opinions.—
Chris Klimek,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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There’s a weird disconnect between the show’s pleasantly languid visual feel and its characters’ emotions.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2026
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Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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For the most part, this lineup, chock full of All-Stars and Hall of Famers, has struggled to put up crooked numbers.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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Accidentally running face-first into your mom’s butt is funny, no matter your species.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
20 Mar. 2026
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At work, while reporting near a looming tornado, Clark meets Floyd (played with a touching, funny pathos by David Harbour), a sign-language interpreter.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Embiid sat out again with a right oblique strain.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Strider felt oblique tightness in his recent Grapefruit League start and then again in a bullpen session.—
Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Off-kilter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-kilter. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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