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awry

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adverb

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Recent Examples of awry
Adjective
But the plan goes severely awry when Hastings’ and Edwards’ planned ambush of the convoy is interrupted by German intelligence officers in a surprise attack, leaving their members wounded and in need of a retreat. Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025 Stop the chances of anything going awry. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 However, that's when the OP said things went awry. Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025 Morticia and Gomez buried Isaac by the Skull Tree after the experiment went awry. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for awry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for awry
Adjective
  • Conventional cooling systems often rely on cold plates that offer indirect contact with battery cells, which can result in uneven temperature distribution.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Polishing and setting diamonds on uneven surfaces is a rare skill and Chopard does it all in-house.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But Trump’s improvisational attempt to negotiate over both subjects at the same time, with the same groups of leaders, is wrong-headed.
    Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2025
  • By ignoring the quantity theory of money and employing neo-Keynesian macroeconomic models, central bankers are often wrong-footed.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • With its wide and deep imaging of the sky, Rubin is expected to discover thousands of new trans-Neptunian objects in the Kuiper Belt, which may confirm the tilted plane or mark it as a statistical fluke.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The tilted pinnacle resembles a jaunty ship cutting through clear air.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Most recently, he was badly injured after a high–speed car crash in New Hampshire in August.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Things go very badly in the first episode, when a home invasion gone wrong puts Robbie in an impossible situation.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Their boss, the only one not carrying a blaster, pointed a long crooked finger at Rusty and all the Blasters were raised at Rusty in unison.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For a Chicago Cubs lineup that has struggled lately to consistently score runs, let alone put up a crooked number, Friday’s opener against the Colorado Rockies provided the ideal bounce-back environment coming off the sweep in San Francisco.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • After going down with an oblique injury earlier this month, top rookie Roman Anthony was given a four-to-six-week timeline for a potential return to the lineup.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Hill missed nearly a month of training camp and preseason with an oblique injury.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Awry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awry. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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