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Recent Examples of throw off
However, a poor diet, excess alcohol, antibiotics, or chronic stress can throw off that balance.7 This can weaken the gut lining, allowing harmful substances to leak into your bloodstream and trigger chronic inflammation.11
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Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 29 July 2025
Too much exposure, especially at night, can disrupt melatonin production and throw off your sleep cycle.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
Since no outside developer or landlord is taking a cut, the arrangement should, in theory, throw off some savings.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
Delay activities that could throw off sparks until the wind dies down.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
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Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 29 July 2025
Too much exposure, especially at night, can disrupt melatonin production and throw off your sleep cycle.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
Since no outside developer or landlord is taking a cut, the arrangement should, in theory, throw off some savings.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
Delay activities that could throw off sparks until the wind dies down.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throw off
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This can happen in different ways for everyone, say binge-watching something, scrolling endlessly, overworking or distracting yourself in other ways.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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For de Lagarde, just as Jewish law distracted from God’s grace, liberalism was a legal straitjacket that kept the German nation from expressing its true spirit.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The foreign ministry previously said India had begun importing oil from Russia as traditional supplies were diverted to Europe over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.—
AFP,
Fortune,
27 Aug. 2025
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The average flight delay was an hour, as of 6:11 p.m. Two flights were canceled, 172 flights were delayed and seven flights were diverted as of 6:35 p.m., the airport's website said.—
Julie Mendes,
AZCentral.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Throw off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throw%20off. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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