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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Hillsborough commission: Former Democratic state Rep. Sean Shaw faces firefighter Chris Boles, a Republican, in the race for a countywide seat, with the commission's conservative tilt at stake. —

Jeff Weiner, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024 The other could be seen at the midway point of the scaffolding, which appeared to be tilted at a 45-degree angle 10 floors above the building's entrance at Wells and 10th streets. —

Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024 That came in 2003, when 1.441 million viewers tuned into ABC on a Saturday afternoon for a tilt at Madison Square Garden. —

Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 19 July 2024 Over the past two decades, this has been the tech equivalent of opening up a ground war in Asia or tilting at windmills, but there is some recent precedent: Perplexity.ai has been doing the same thing since November of 2022. —

John Koetsier, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tilt at