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careen

verb as in tilt; move wildly down path

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The ball, which careened off Branch’s outstretched arms, was corralled by Wisconsin.

On the right — the more recent image — the smoke careens eastward toward Nevada and Arizona.

She invited viewers to attend one of his rallies and then mocked him for careening into odd topics and conspiracies, accusing him of ignoring the needs of average people.

To avoid him, the driver swerved the other way, clipping the bumper of another car and then careening across all lanes of the freeway until the vehicle hit a tractor-trailer.

In fact, the light bouncing off careening space junk – defunct satellites, pieces of spacecraft, cellphones, nuts, bolts, shards of metal and glass – can prevent astronomers from seeing, photographing and navigating by means of the stars.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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