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- adjective
Away from atarget - adverb Away from a target
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Examples
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I think in all the time I've been watching football the only goalkeepers who have genuinely earned that description are Peter Schmeichel and Kevin Miller, but maybe I'm just hard to please.28 mins: Stam advances down the right before boshing the least pinpoint cross in the history of off-target crosses into row XX.
Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report 2012
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Milner's cross from the left is only just too high for Balotelli, and when Reina's punch lands at Aguero's feet 20 yards out his volley is emphatically off-target.18 mins: Balotelli goes down, expecting a free-kick.
Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton 2012
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Sanchez was off-target early, overthrowing three open receivers on his first three possessions.
SHOCKER: Jets Back Up Trash Talk AP 2011
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Rachel's choice, "Music and Me," by Michael Jackson, couldn't have been more off-target for her.
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A local journalist told VOA that the bomb apparently was intended for a police checkpoint but was either thrown off-target or landed in a ditch, reducing its impact.
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Sanchez was off-target early, overthrowing three open receivers on his first three possessions.
SHOCKER: Jets Back Up Trash Talk AP 2011
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Sanchez was off-target early, overthrowing three open receivers on his first three possessions.
SHOCKER: Jets Back Up Trash Talk AP 2011
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It's not only that the "Revolutionary" government is hideously off-target.
Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing 2009
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Sanchez was off-target early, overthrowing three open receivers on his first three possessions.
SHOCKER: Jets Back Up Trash Talk AP 2011
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The Denver Broncos quarterback was erratic and off-target all afternoon in a 45-10 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Tim Tebow Struggles: Broncos QB Falters As Lions Celebrate By Tebowing The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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