go astray
Example Sentences
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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
Some good news about China's relations with the other world superpower would not go astray.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2023
From his practical experience, he knows that in addition to any bureaucratic problems, personal issues can make undercover operations go astray.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
But in rocketry, as in life, sometimes the most careful plans go astray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
And when we try to draw conclusions from the facts we often go astray because we have misunderstood their significance.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
