off base

Example Sentences

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McDonald are not off-base when they say that Mahmoud establishes their right to send their kids to school unvaccinated.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Ms. Lee is equally off-base, delivering her lines with a mix of sangfroid and sarcasm as if C-suite officers are used to getting chased around by super-killers from another domain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

The book was spectacularly off-base, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explained at the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died at his off-base residence, the U.S.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

There was much to be said for the Defense Department's theory that an appeal for voluntary compliance would produce much integration in off-base schools attended by military dependents.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.