astray
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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
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
But the proliferation of food items advertised as high-protein, ranging from toaster pastries to tortilla chips, could lead consumers astray, Miserandino said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 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
Besides, when had his parents ever led him astray?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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