: proper or usual state or condition : order
out of kilter
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since I dropped my food processor, it's been all out of kilter
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In the 2010s, the second Mercury mission, Messenger, documented that the planet’s magnetic field is off kilter.
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
The goal of terrorist violence is often to throw a more powerful state off kilter and incite bloodshed.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
The goal of terrorist violence is often to throw a more powerful state off kilter and incite bloodshed.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
See all Example Sentences for kilter
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“Kilter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilter. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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kilter
noun
kil·ter
ˈkil-tər 
: proper condition
the TV is out of kilter
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