course correction

Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words

An adjustment made to a direction or plan, either literally or figuratively.

correctionADJECTIVE + correction

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course

Examples (10)

  • The spacecraft made a minor course correction to stay on its trajectory to Mars.
  • After a disappointing quarter, the company announced a major course correction in its marketing strategy.
  • Now is the time to make any necessary course corrections to the project plan.
  • The pilot performed an in-flight course correction to avoid the storm.
  • His decision to go back to school was a major course correction in his life.
  • The government's new policy is seen as a significant course correction on environmental issues.
  • The ship's automated system can make a course correction without human intervention.
  • Feedback from users prompted a necessary course correction in the software's design.
  • We will need to make a swift course correction if we want to meet our deadline.
  • The team's success was largely due to a timely course correction after the initial setback.