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astray

[uh-strey] / əˈstreɪ /


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For a far more authoritative and up-to-date critique of physics, check out the fascinating, painfully honest new book Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder.

From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2018

In my personal time, I read many essays online and the books I read this year were predominantly essay collections: Once I Was Cool, Legs Get Led Astray, Bad Feminist, The Empathy Exams.

From Time • Jan. 6, 2015

With a Shot and Some Wacky Bounces, a Good Night Goes Astray for Lundqvist Until the third period, the ’ Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender was at his best, again.

From New York Times • May 22, 2013

Astrayby Emma Donoghue With Astray, a collection of short stories about emigrants, drifters, taboo-breakers and border-crossers on their way to, or scrabbling to survive in, the New World, we are back to the historical archive.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

While playing in Dublin as George de Lesparre in Boucicault's "Led Astray" his work and appearance so impressed a critic that he wrote to Boucicault, in London, about him.

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various




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