"course-correct" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from course correction.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017 January 21, Bim Adewunmi, “Why I love... author Nicola Yoon”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "I’ve occasionally gone on TV and movie fasts, usually to course-correct after overindulging in too many screen-based activities. But books are a constant and during no period of my life was I more immersed in books than as a teenager.",
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          "ref": "2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts. She is joined by women at various stages of their basketball careers, many focused on redemptive arcs of their own.",
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        "To make adjustments to an ongoing process or project in order to achieve a desired outcome."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To make adjustments to an ongoing process or project in order to achieve a desired outcome."
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  "word": "course-correct"
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