wide of the mark
Example Sentences
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His dire forecasts about global cooling and warming were wide of the mark, a twofer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Yet, for Maguire, talk of a financial crisis and a club struggling to meet PSR obligations is well wide of the mark.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
Sir Keir said "the figures being bandied around are absolutely wide of the mark".
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Any suggestion the second Test was only decided by the coin would be wide of the mark.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
