amiss

Example Sentences

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As for your husband’s IRAs, something is amiss.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Independent experts will be asked to look at what went amiss with LAUSD’s AI effort and helped plan next steps in the ongoing but stalled strategy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

There they realise something is amiss and are soon swept up into a wildly unpredictable adventure.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

On 28 August that year, Izabela called her mother as she usually would and "nothing was amiss", Aspden said.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

I froze, too, aware that something was amiss, but not quite sure what.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood