awry
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6.8
- adjective
- /əˈraɪ/
- At this point, things have gone awry, at least in terms of my own experience with this type of work.
- go awry
- plans go awry
- things went awry
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Watch on YouTubeUnder adverse circumstances, the calibrations and calculations of neighborliness can go appallingly awry.
- Under adverse circumstances, the calibrations and calculations of neighborliness can go appallingly awry.
- And at what point do you step in and try to course correct because you see something going horribly awry?
- And maybe we need to keep tabs on them, you know, because if they don't want to be mingling a little bit, then that's, you know, something's up, something's awry.
- And when systems go awry, it's when they don't bring in different perspectives.
- I'm starting out with the tiniest bit because I just know it can go awry so, so easily.
- And they are pregnancies that have gone awry.
- You know, there's so many things that are, are seem to be going awry in the world today.
- And here is where things start to really go awry.
- Like I just, I can't handle situations that go awry.
- So can I tap into what's gone awry inside them so I can help them to flourish outside?
- So the media has talked about how this is lawyers using ChatGPT and things going awry.
- However, well-intentioned attempts at managing the room in this instance went awry.
- When it goes awry is when it's perceiving immediate danger that really isn't there.
Examples
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Despite careful preparation, the event went awry because of the sudden rainstorm.
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And just once in a while it goes awry.
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How close do you think we are to things going really awry in this country?
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In any event, something appeared to go awry in the early 1970s.
Academic text (1990) -
Their plans go awry so often, however, that they do not appear to be very autonomous.
Academic text (1997) -
And without great parenting, things can go awry.
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Graham and the team are going through everything as quickly as they can to solve this, to find out what's gone awry.
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His original plan had gone awry; he grudgingly admitted to himself.
Fiction book (1996) -
And when systems go awry, it's when they don't bring in different perspectives.
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Still, as any scientist can testify, much can go awry between the promising laboratory results.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not working correctly
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6.8
In a wrong way when something does not happen as it should
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7.5
Not working as it should and often out of control
In a way that is wrong or does not go as planned
Antonyms
How Wrong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word awry comes from a- 'on' plus wry 'twisted', giving the picture of something 'twisted' away from how it should be. So, when a plan goes awry, it means it has gone off course or not as planned.