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The phrase "alter its course" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changing the direction or path of something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The company had to alter its course after realizing the initial strategy was not yielding the desired results."
Alternatives: "change its direction" or "modify its path."
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History can certainly alter its course, and it will be up to Baffert and Espinoza to give War Emblem every chance to do so.
Nasa is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed to see if it can alter its course.
The procedure was one of four tested by the students over the six-week internship and the most effective, it turned out, at mimicking natural signals sent to the roach's brain, forcing it to alter its course and move in their desired direction.
While likely a disappointment to early investors who were hoping to get a differentiated fitness tracker, we believe in light of market trends, the company made a wise decision to alter its course, putting it in better position to address the more challenging issues of chronic disease management.
Nevertheless, although treatment may slow the progress of the disease, it does not alter its course.
Germany vowed to put its finances in order, while France brushed aside the warning as "symbolic" and said it would not alter its course.
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Modern Turkey reportedly funds a massive genocide denial campaign, claiming that the death marches were merely "relocations" required by military necessity and that the massacres (the Euphrates was so packed with bodies that it altered its course) were the work of a few "unruly' officials.
But in doing so, it has altered its course in ways that may mute Edison's future role in the national debate over educational reform.
"Ees Betty there?" he would enquire, and Solly would feel not that her life had changed exactly but that it had altered its course.
The very river had altered its course.
Pinpointing its location felt like chasing a wave, which would expand and shrink, altering its course and collapsing into froth just when I got near.
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