off-course

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Rubio used the visit—which included stops in four cities and a swing to the Taj Mahal with his wife—to insist that this friction hasn’t knocked the relationship off course.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

An Oakland-based musician and activist, Riley was confident enough in his identity that he couldn’t be knocked off course.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

For all of Arsenal’s control during attacking set pieces, however, it was a defensive set piece that nearly sent them off course.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

While collecting sediment cores from the Cascadia subduction zone off Oregon and northern California, the team accidentally drifted off course.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2026

The three of us were like well-oiled robots, our assembly line never veering off course: fold, stuff, seal, repeat.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas