awry
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Howe has high hopes for “The Body,” about badly behaved Catholic school girls who have prophetic visions after a dance team initiation goes awry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Testers at the AI Security Institute didn’t expect the Anthropic and OpenAI models to go rogue but realized that something had gone awry when they received a strange alert the morning of July 28.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
This way, if something goes awry, someone else at your company can vouch that you were receiving no guidance or support from your manager.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Things went awry with the multiverse-exploiting fan-service epic “No Way Home” in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was aware, of course, that something was awry in his life, and all lives, but put the problem where it belonged, at the foot of the Originator of Life.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing awry
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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"Is Survival Selfish?" Vocabulary from the argument
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