off-balance

Example Sentences

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Styles sings of relationships that are constantly off balance.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Goldman’s current leadership has done the right thing in moving a lot of our investments off balance sheet to avoid excessive volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

On “The Bear,” his last guest star role, Albert Schnur knocks our trust off balance by swooping into Ebra’s life, expecting to find disorganization, and enthusiastically respecting that Ebra has his act together.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

Banks are also beautifying their books through “significant risk transfers,” or SRTs, that shift potentially dodgier assets off balance sheet.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

Bacchus swung his staff through the air, though his potbelly almost threw him off balance.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan