astray
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Lineouts were going astray before the foul weather set in and full-back Jordan, preferred to Blair Kinghorn, did not look too clever for the Italian's opening scores.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
If the digging phase is where ideas are found, it is also where many people go astray.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
As app users become even more desperate for human connection and worse at identifying what’s written by bots, they’ll be pulled toward profiles that are overtly unconventional to avoid being led astray.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026
Not to go all Charlie Brown here – and yes, a Peanuts-themed fireplace exists on the Interwebs – but might we introspect about these commercialist and consumerist bells and whistles leading us astray?
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
“Let me hold that book, if you please. It belongs to Lord Fredrick, and I do not want it going astray again.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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