off base
Example Sentences
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Some were wildly off-base; others lined up perfectly with what I’d seen and heard.
From Los Angeles Times
Live Nation says the arguments are off-base and will probably fail in court.
From Los Angeles Times
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.
From Seattle Times
In a paper published Monday in “The Anatomical Record,” an international team of paleontologists, neuroscientists and behavioral scientists argue that Herculano-Houzel’s assumptions about brain cavity size and corresponding neuron counts were off-base.
From Los Angeles Times
Voting rights advocates have argued the elections office’s legal interpretations have been way off-base.
From Seattle Times
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