awry
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Well, if you use ChatGPT to plan it, maybe just bake in extra time in case things go awry.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
History is littered with examples of big media mergers going awry, many of them involving some permutation of Warner Bros.:
From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026
This is also what makes them so pressurized and painful when they go awry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
In Brontë’s novel, Cathy and Heathcliff first encounter their neighbors, the Lintons, after an outdoor escapade gone awry.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
When our powers of rapid cognition go awry, they go awry for a very specific and consistent set of reasons, and those reasons can be identified and understood.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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