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Recent Examples of throw offAlex feels welcomed in this new town, but is immediately thrown off kilter by the intimacy among neighbors in Tall Pines.—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025 What's throwing off the seasons?—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025 Zeferjahn has been throwing off a mound for the past week.—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025 Lack of ample sleep throws off your body's internal clock, triggering a surge in stress hormones that cause blood vessels to narrow and blood pressure to rise.—Md Published, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for throw off
To many climate advocates, focusing too much on measures to prepare society for the physical costs of climate change risked distracting from efforts to cut emissions.
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Justin Worland,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Critics, though, have argued that these efforts are serving to distract from the country’s record of repressing free speech and dissent, as well as human rights violations, which have been widely reported.
The airport has been nearly 20 years in the making, a process that involved flattening hills, diverting rivers and bridging creeks.
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Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
In a similar incident that took place earlier this year, a 67-year-old woman reportedly died on an easyJet flight, causing the plane to be diverted mid-air.
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