go off course
Example Sentences
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Even mature investing instruments can go off course.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2025
Investigators also have recovered the data recorder of the Dali ship, which they hope may explain the catastrophic power failure that caused it to go off course and hit the bridge.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2024
“There’s more temptation in these cases to go off course, and by doing so, you undercut the credibility of your own case,” Levenson said.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
But he acknowledged that “there are limitations” to DART’s onboard sensors, and that it could go off course.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Miss Bertha at school had told us about the si-renes—the mermaids who used to sing to Greek sailors and they’d go off course to follow.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
