bum steer
Example Sentences
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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2012
Trying to catch out the Knowledge with a bum steer, eh Sean?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011
There’s a proud skunk owner from Atlanta, a pizza deliveryman from San Bernardino and a bill collector from Denver given a bum steer while tracing a debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 1999
I says to him, 'What license you got to give a lady a bum steer like that?
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
