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

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

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

In a paper published Monday in “The Anatomical Record,” an international team of paleontologists, neuroscientists and behavioral scientists argue that Herculano-Houzel’s assumptions about brain cavity size and corresponding neuron counts were off-base.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

Command responsibility for equal opportunity, the committee emphasized, was particularly important "in the area of most pressing concern, off-base discrimination."

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