bum steer
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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2012
A few years later, I was given another bum steer, this time by lovelorn indie music.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
There’s a proud skunk owner from Atlanta, a pizza deliveryman from San Bernardino and a bill collector from Denver given a bum steer while tracing a debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 1999
I got a hunch mebbe it's a bum steer, but you can't be sure till you try it.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
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