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astray

[uh-strey] / əˈstreɪ /


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He left 15 years ago and has spent much of the time since cataloging how he thought the institution was going astray.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

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 • Jan. 21, 2026

Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, hornswoggled by hand-me-down history.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

But historian, writer, and quasi-optimist Jill Lepore has thoughts about where the American constitutional experiment went astray and what might be deployed in order to save it.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

He stretched out his hand and found another hand with two rings on the same finger about to go astray in the darkness.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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