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The phrase "throw off course" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when describing a situation where something or someone is diverted from their intended path or direction. Example: "The unexpected storm threw the ship off course, delaying its arrival by several hours."
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Meanwhile, there are growing concerns within the Department for Transport (DfT) that the judicial review may delay or throw off course the rail franchising system.
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Expectations a decade ago that energy giants would turn to low-carbon power sources – from new nuclear plants to alternative energies such as solar and wind – were thrown off course by the financial crisis and successive governments switching policies and targets.
Any form of birth control that can help prevent unwanted teen pregnancies will lead to more families who are thrilled to welcome their child into the world at the appropriate time in their lives, not have their plans for college and career thrown off course by an unintended pregnancy.
As a result, investigators can be thrown off course during the computation of their qPCR results.
Throughout the trial, the defendants were thrown off-course as the crown, struggling to keep up, served new evidence that should have been presented before the trial started.
The entire history of the current cinema has been thrown off-course both by the lack of recognition of these films and their directors, actors, and technicians in their own time, and by the absence of the films — both by these artists and by those whom they would have inspired — that should have followed.
Down here, internal compasses are thrown off-course.
As the ships were traveling to the beach, the heavy seas, combined with the chaos of the fighting caused most of the landing force to be thrown off-course and most of the 116th Infantry missed its landing spots.
Rosoff is not thrown off course.
The entire region's economic boom could be thrown off course.
Every time he is sailing along, his world is thrown off course.
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