wide of the mark
Example Sentences
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To the frustration of many, including him too perhaps, that prediction has proved wide of the mark.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
McIlroy's pre-tournament prediction of being able to take the sting out of Pennsylvania course by smashing his driver as far as he could proved wide of the mark in a disappointing opening round.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
His dire forecasts about global cooling and warming were wide of the mark, a twofer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Others argue that criticism of Badenoch on policy development is wide of the mark.
From BBC • May 28, 2025
And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
