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Free sign upThe phrase "is a bit off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is slightly incorrect, unusual, or not quite right.
Example: "The timing of the meeting is a bit off; we should reschedule it for later in the week."
Alternatives: "is slightly incorrect" or "seems a little off."
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"This is a bit off," observed one Formula One mechanic.
My balance is a bit off but I'm gradually adjusting to it".
"I only see Dresher in the dark, and my body clock is a bit off," he said.
But its image – primarily bare-breasted women in fancy samba floats — is a bit off, though there's plenty of that in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
As Michael Isikoff of Newsweek reported weeks later, this is a bit off; he found that 3,022,030 health care documents were still held hostage.
He said he had seen other reports by that psychiatrist, who was foreign-born, and that "sometimes his syntax is a bit off".
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Located in residential Hanover, it is a bit off-piste but walkable from town.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm just curious… HENDRIK HERTZBERG: I couldn't agree with you more.
Also, that whole "eating people" thing is a bit off-putting – let's keep him in a muzzle, but make it a figurative muzzle... of loneliness.
But if Nussbaum is a bit off-key in her defense of the Mormons, her moral clarity snaps back into focus when she turns to the establishment clause clashes of the last half-century.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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