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bum steer

[buhm steer] / ˈbʌm ˌstɪər /




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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

Greenhorns Stan and Ollie go to Brushwood Gulch with a gold-mine deed and get a bum steer.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2020

It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2012

Trying to catch out the Knowledge with a bum steer, eh Sean?

From The Guardian Jul. 5, 2011

And all that sympathetic talk, that bum steer, just to cheat the big loser out of one measly pot!

From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan




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