as in to slope
to set or cause to be at an angle
the robin tilts its head as it hunts for worms in the grass
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Recent Examples of tilt
Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a 4-3 liberal tilt, but Bradley’s retirement brings it to a 3-3 split.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025
Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Trump's mug shot is a blurry image of him staring into the camera, head tilted down and brows furrowed.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
And right now the conventional wisdom seems to be that the country has taken a rightward tilt.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a 4-3 liberal tilt, but Bradley’s retirement brings it to a 3-3 split.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
Since Saturn rotates on an axis tilted by 27 degrees, its tilt occasionally causes its rings to align with the line of sight from Earth.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Trump's mug shot is a blurry image of him staring into the camera, head tilted down and brows furrowed.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tilt
Noun
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Every day Newsweek provides readers with the best hints and tips to solve Connections, one of the most popular games published by The New York Times.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Trump also promised to eliminate taxes on tips and Social Security, which would drive the price tag exponentially higher.—
Stephanie Dhue,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Its roof slopes down quite steeply from front to back; its front wall also slopes.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Multiple architectural elements are sloped or curved, including the hallways between guest rooms.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Those filaments are arranged in line with the direction of the bend, putting them at a right angle to the underlying cellulose filaments.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Jan. 2025
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The sepia sky was filled with smoke, ash was falling, and as my car rounded a bend on the 110 Freeway, another phone alert blared to evacuate the area.—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2025
Verb
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It is also elevated by the presence and placement of diamonds on the flange and indexes, which are notably set into the curve on either side of a deep flange, originally angled that way in 1963 to enhance readability of the seconds index.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
21 Jan. 2025
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But a postseason game is different, in part because teams angle all season to secure home-field advantage in the playoffs.—
Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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While the natural inclination may be to retreat into silos, to focus on what is within our immediate control, or to compete for limited resources, the challenges of the Intelligent Age cannot be solved in isolation.—
Klaus Schwab,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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But Evans argues that, to the contrary, few Germans truly shared such inclinations.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The Wolves failed to lean into their ball movement and size, and Cleveland outexecuted Minnesota by a severe margin en route to a 124-117 Cavaliers’ victory Saturday at Target Center.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
19 Jan. 2025
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Williams has since leaned into the house’s history, dressing up a Puente-like mannequin on the front porch and framing photographs on the wall that document Puente’s history there.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The organization has maintained Ohio's official angling records since roughly the 1940s, said Fred Snyder, chairman of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio Record Fish Committee.—
Bebe Hodges,
The Enquirer,
27 Apr. 2024
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In any case, with the duo eager to launch a new product with an attention-grabbing buy, keep an eye out for Christie’s angling to land the opportunity for its own slice of crypto publicity pie.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Tilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tilt. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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