awry
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In David Ireland’s comedy at Irish Repertory Theatre, a Hollywood actor’s meeting with the writer and the director of a new play goes flagrantly, hilariously awry.
The novel also elucidates the strange limbo of the American immigration quota process, which “resembled a bakery system gone awry.”
Despite my quibbles with how her character reacts when things really go awry, Kiri’s Evy has a clarity of purpose that holds our attention despite not having that much to do.
From Los Angeles Times
While there wasn’t a particular trade that stoked the losses, some funds were hit by macroeconomic bond-market bets that went awry.
Testing marketing messages with AI-simulated people is a relatively low-stakes task compared with healthcare settings, Brown said, and offers some leeway in case the AI goes awry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
