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Recent Examples of amiss
Adjective
Evolving role of leadership innovation with global investments Investment and tax-efficient estate planning strategies would be amiss without proper governance and leadership succession. Priya Prakash Royal Esq. Ll.m. Mba Aep Tep, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 If anything turns out to be amiss, they can be admitted into the unit, where they'll be surrounded by other people who are also expecting and who likely have concerns about their own pregnancies, rather than a regular emergency room that is treating all sorts of patients. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
The whole incident -- from realizing something was going amiss to hitting the water -- only lasted one or two minutes. Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019 This connectivity can provide a sense of brain organization, and there's a growing body of evidence that this organization goes amiss in those with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018 See All Example Sentences for amiss
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amiss
Adjective
  • That leads estate planners to recommend to some clients an intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT).
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The parts planning team, which uses a separate system with different data, mistakenly orders a big batch of the now defective parts before getting the update.
    Sean O'Neill, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ship was heading the wrong direction The training ship arrived at New York's Pier 17 and was open to the public to visit from May 13 to 17, according to the Mexican Consulate in New York.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • In short, public school teachers believe K-12 education is on the wrong track.
    Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • If sinister twists or Roy-style bad dads do it for you, hang on past the hour mark.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
  • Anything under par around here in these conditions isn't a bad score.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • The court had to issue a letter stating the interpretation was incorrect.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • If a project fails because the decision to go ahead with the project turns out to be incorrect (which should happen frequently), that failure should not bear on the manager responsible for the project.
    Tim Koller, Time, 20 May 2025
Adverb
  • Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the hospital, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
  • One soldier who served under him was wounded badly.
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • But in reality, leadership is learned—and lived—at the dinner table; in the car ride to practice; during the messy, imperfect, real moments of daily life.
    Leisse Wilcox, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • There are spiritual centers all over California (and the world), but what makes the ones in L.A. unique is that many of them hold imperfect pasts and urban realities, mirroring the city itself, and maybe being misunderstood in the same way.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • But lingering beneath the surface of his success, Favre had a pattern of inappropriate behavior off the field, including a high-profile tabloid scandal that erupted in 2010, and most recently, the largest case of public fraud in Mississippi’s history.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • As the rebel Jen (Michelle Williams) comes to town, and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) carries on an inappropriate relationship with his teacher, that turns out to be the case. 23.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • But regulations that apply to traditional markets are unsuitable for digital native assets like crypto and digital assets.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The vacant land, which was largely unsuitable for agriculture, became an albatross over the next few decades.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Amiss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amiss. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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