astray
Example Sentences
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If the digging phase is where ideas are found, it is also where many people go astray.
He left 15 years ago and has spent much of the time since cataloging how he thought the institution was going astray.
Then again, those New Year’s Eve revelers may have had their powers of basic detection and deductive reasoning sharpened by being led astray by AI slop.
From Salon
They likely are wasting their time: the data these early birds obtain don’t provide an advantage — and may actually lead them astray.
From MarketWatch
“Let me hold that book, if you please. It belongs to Lord Fredrick, and I do not want it going astray again.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
