all over the map
Example Sentences
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I have scattergrams — charts showing no reliable pattern — of every major valuation metric against one-year forward returns, and the dots are all over the map.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The performance of the stocks has been all over the map.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Trump was all over the map before making a lunar landing his new administration’s centerpiece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
International opinion is all over the map in terms of how effective these attacks were in disabling Iran’s nuclear program.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2025
The opinions he expressed in print, argued with idiosyncratic logic, were all over the map.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
