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When Hitler rose to power in 1933, though, the painting business fell slightly awry. (source)awry = in an unintended way
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She doesn't care about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test results. (source)awry = wrong
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You fix them, and they go awry, and then you fix them again.† (source)awry = in improper position; or in an unintended way
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As soon as he was out of the room, Edgar was up running through the kitchen, but his sense of balance had gone awry.† (source)
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Where her mother was prone to express her impatience with the slightest of the world's imperfections, Sofia seemed to presume that if the earth spun awry upon occasion, it was generally a well-intentioned planet.† (source)
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Mr. Weasley, kind-faced, balding, his spectacles a little awry;† (source)
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Something definitely was awry.† (source)awry = in improper position; or in an unintended way
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Cinder bit back awry laugh.† (source)
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If things go awry, running won't help you anyway.† (source)
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I want that gold ready when Gudgeon's plan goes awry.† (source)
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A monument to kitsch gone woefully awry.† (source)
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Frey had intended to keep her captive, but perhaps something went awry.† (source)
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But every time a pilot chooses a plan, he is supposed to prepare a backup in case things go awry.† (source)
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We ran through the doorway, dodging a random wombat that went flying over our heads—possibly someone's spell gone awry—and stepped into complete pandemonium.† (source)
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I entered a scene that felt like a holiday party gone awry—a few bottles of champagne rested on one desk, surrounded by tiny paper cups.† (source)
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He raised the radio up and brought it down, and it smashed on the floor spilling old clocksprings and tubes like the result of some crazy elevator game gone awry, making his father's voice gone, leaving only his voice, Jack's voice, Jacky's voice, chanting in the cold reality of the office: " — dead, you're dead, you're dead!"† (source)
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