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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
Death of a Unicorn was executive-produced by Ari Aster, who’s ramped up his production game and has been involved in a slew of off-kilter projects, from Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario to Yorgos Lanthimos’s upcoming Save the Green Planet!
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The director toys with jump scares and mirrors, rearranges our sense of time and experiments with off-kilter camera angles (Frank G. DeMarco is the DP) to build a sense of dread.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
What often gets lost in the commotion is the fact that SXSW is also a robust hub for small, off-kilter indies that struggle to stand out when Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are staging a mini-parade at a headline-making premiere.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
While much of the show was scripted, Lowe was also allowed to ad-lib, which further helped solidify the show’s off-kilter, edgy sense of humor.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The director toys with jump scares and mirrors, rearranges our sense of time and experiments with off-kilter camera angles (Frank G. DeMarco is the DP) to build a sense of dread.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
What often gets lost in the commotion is the fact that SXSW is also a robust hub for small, off-kilter indies that struggle to stand out when Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are staging a mini-parade at a headline-making premiere.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
While much of the show was scripted, Lowe was also allowed to ad-lib, which further helped solidify the show’s off-kilter, edgy sense of humor.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-kilter
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The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Nationally, learning loss recovery has been slow and uneven, especially among students of color, Axios' Russell Contreras reported.—
Chrissy Suttles,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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The debut season also followed journeyman quarterback Marcus Mariota's uneven run with the Atlanta Falcons.—
Chantz Martin,
Fox News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Sure, the plot’s kind of a mess, but warrior Alice is an empowering turn while Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter’s big-headed Red Queen are splendidly strange.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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This brings to conclusion one of the stranger and more dramatic human spaceflight stories in years.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2025
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Gargantuan, weird outcomes can start small in the tech world, and often innocently.—
Jaron Lanier,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Tampa Bay is one of the most crooked places in America, according to fraud report data from the Federal Trade Commission.—
Martin Vassolo,
Axios,
20 Mar. 2025
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Talley also said the pathway of the bullet as the pathologist in the case testified disproves any legal theory that Ferguson’s arm was crooked at a 45-degree angle.—
Hetty Chang,
NBC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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On her first series, the actress played the furry and funny Honk on the Kroffts’ Far Out Space Nuts, a character who spoke only in horn-like honks.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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Everyone was so nervous to tell Mike what our number was, which was so funny.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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But Jeff McNeil’s oblique injury and Nick Madrigal’s shoulder surgery opened up two infield spots.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Utility man Romy Gonzalez, who suffered a minor oblique injury last week, is also expected to be ready by Opening Day.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2025
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Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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There is something extremely odd about a film which purports to deliver on a promise of unfiltered combat but yet refuses to contextualize either the mission itself or the war in which it is set.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Off-kilter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-kilter. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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