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
Curious to see the effect of all that Americanness, I drove north from Naha to Makiminato, a place once dominated by American bases, off-base housing and base-adjacent businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
Live Nation says the arguments are off-base and will probably fail in court.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024
Stanley Perlman, a University of Iowa professor who studies coronaviruses and serves on the federal advisory committee that reviews vaccines, said Rosendale’s claim is off-base.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024
In retrospect, the attention paid by defense officials and the services to off-base discrimination in the 1960's may have been misdirected; many of these injustices would eventually have succumbed to civil rights legislation.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.
