astray
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They are decent people who have been led astray.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
MarketWatch: What investment advice do people give that leads others astray?
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Lineouts were going astray before the foul weather set in and full-back Jordan, preferred to Blair Kinghorn, did not look too clever for the Italian's opening scores.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
If the digging phase is where ideas are found, it is also where many people go astray.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Euler was an excellent mathematician—in fact, he was one of the most prolific and influential in history—but in this case the careless manipulation of zero and infinity led him astray.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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