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awry

adjective as in off course; amiss

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Two hundred fifty years in, the American experiment has gone horribly awry, although there is plenty of controversy surrounding the “why” of it.

They label the frequent mistakes and fabrications produced by AI bots as “hallucinations,” which suggests that the bots have perceptions that may have gone slightly awry.

The head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said earlier on Saturday that air drops are "expensive, inefficient, and can even kill starving civilians" if they go awry.

From BBC

On a nervy night at Marvel Stadium, Jamie Osborne and Darcy Graham scored early tries to put the Lions into what looked like a commanding 14-0 lead, but things started to go awry from there.

From BBC

One pilot project went disastrously awry — increasing the time needed to process the paperwork.

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

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