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awry

[uh-rahy] / əˈraɪ /


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These chaotic touches “add to Chappell’s look, because Chappell has a few things that are kind of going awry on her face.”

From Salon

This is also what makes them so pressurized and painful when they go awry.

From The Wall Street Journal

Things begin to go awry when a group of demons find a way to enter the human world and take on the form of a five-person boy band, known as the Saja Boys.

From BBC

Next up is a Valentine's Day date with England at Murrayfield and, if that one goes awry, the considerable heat on Townsend is only going to increase.

From BBC

“We would be able to see if something was going awry.”

From Salon