straying

Example Sentences

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Swinney said Hamilton was straying into "incredibly inappropriate territory" and denied trying to sweep the story under the carpet.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

All of them are at their best when they behave relatively normally instead of straying into caricatures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

The Treasury market has been quiet lately, with 10-year debt barely straying from a yield of 4.3% in April.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

But many Cubans blame their own leaders for mismanaging the economy — and straying from the ideals of Castro’s revolution.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas