off the mark

idiom

: not accurate or correct : not achieving the desired result

Their estimates were completely off the mark.

His efforts to console her were off the mark.

Examples of off the mark in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Geologists think Earth could have once been 100% ocean The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark. —

Big Think, 24 June 2024 Most Americans are way off the mark: Only about one in 10 U.S. adults eats enough vegetables and fruit. —

Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 19 June 2024 But the notion that the rapid technological change in some sectors of the economy in recent decades has accelerated the transformation of the entire economy is wildly off the mark. —

Lant Pritchett, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 In the prelims, Rowe was within eight hundredths of a second off the mark. —

Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for off the mark

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