off base

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Ms. Lee is equally off-base, delivering her lines with a mix of sangfroid and sarcasm as if C-suite officers are used to getting chased around by super-killers from another domain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Some were wildly off-base; others lined up perfectly with what I’d seen and heard.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Stanley Perlman, a University of Iowa professor who studies coronaviruses and serves on the federal advisory committee that reviews vaccines, said Rosendale’s claim is off-base.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Self-serving defensive claims and off-base sports analogies will not turn things around.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2023

He also took up the question of whether to provide off-base integrated schooling, balancing the difficult problem of protecting the civil rights of federal employees against the educational advantages of a state-sponsored education system.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.