How to Use deviate in a Sentence

deviate

1 of 2 verb

• But the ways the chairs are used deviates widely in practice.
  — al, 16 Mar. 2023
• Do not deviate from the approach when the going is tough.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The city would need to deviate from the current plan to lease or sell its block of properties.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The drive to tame inflation could set a higher bar for the Fed to deviate from its plans to raise rates.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• But Putin didn’t deviate from the script, and the start of Xi’s trip was like that of any visiting leader.
  — Vladimir Isachenkov, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Some researchers are now deviating from the focus of the past few years.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Over that distance the car should only deviate about one inch from that line.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• Both ladies are proof that there’s no need to deviate from your go-to ensembles.
  — Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
• Verdugo can sometimes deviate from his approach and try to launch the ball.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Better, for me, is to deviate from the classic and use bourbon instead of rye.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 July 2022
• As the sun and Chiron clash, deviating from the status quo seems like too big a risk.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• Swonk doesn’t expect Powell and the Fed to deviate from its course now, either.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Swift rarely deviates from her signature shade of dark blonde, while Gomez is more of a color chameleon.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
• The show is deviating from that plot, although by how much is unclear.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Yet the father deviates slightly from the ancient style, and the child retains elements of it.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Why did Kyle deviate from the run game, particularly in the rain?
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Still, there’s eight Bridgerton siblings total, so the show could still deviate at any moment from the order set out in the books.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2022
• The Reds, entrenched in rebuilding mode, did not deviate from their plan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Crypto couldn’t exist without an urge to deviate from the norm.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• The ministry said the drones lost control and deviated from their flight path and were shot down by the Russian military.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The moon phase display shows the moon as seen from the northern and southern hemispheres and will only deviate by one day after 577.5 years.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Most of the 2009 game’s world design consisted of straight hallways, with almost no way to deviate off the main story.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Hikers and climbers looking for a challenge will be tempted to deviate from the Juliana Trail and tackle the ascent to the summit of Mount Triglav.
  — Mary Novakovich, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• There’s reason to think the Dolphins might deviate from their blitzing strategy of a year ago.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• Duggan has yet to deviate from his low-key, team-first philosophy to the season or his award quest.
  — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
• There is often a price to pay for deviating from whatever the Republican line of the day is.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 May 2023
• Legally, the size of each district can deviate no more than 10 percent over or under that ideal size.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• This is one of several times throughout the doc where his version deviates from what happened.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• The film does deviate from what would be the common reality in the Indian middle-class and does so only to put forth its message of quitting the rat-race and living for the present without being too indulgent in materialistic luxuries.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Fresno district’s deal with Harris, however, deviated from that model by providing progress payments during construction, using bond funds, and turning the school over to the district immediately upon completion.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024

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deviate

2 of 2 noun

• And so the question is, in the case, did the image and the artwork that Warhol created, did that deviate enough?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
• There’s no reason to trade any prospects at this point or deviate from the long-term plan with some rash move.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021
• For the spring 2021 season, Lemaire and Tran didn’t deviate from their formula.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2021
• Will Trump deviate beyond his usual script to discuss the events of January 6?
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 May 2022
• How is voting supposed to be conducted in nursing homes and how did elections in 2020 deviate from that?
  — Molly Beck and Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
• As a result, many of the structures deviate from current building standards.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• But the areas of common ground make clear the extent to which President Trump’s views on the government’s role in health care deviate from those of respected voices on both the left and the right.
  — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
• The marks on the Krapina 3 Neandertal skull deviate from all the other examples of bone modification at the site and are unique in the fossil record.
  — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Even on the first day his teenage years officially ended, Maxey didn’t deviate from this routine.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• Boards, schools, and even teachers can choose to do the bare minimum or deviate from script, which means what students learn is wildly different from school to school, and even classroom to classroom.
  — Carli Whitwell, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Any designs that deviate will have to go through additional hurdles to get approved.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
• In various performances of the play over the years, the actors have been known deviate from the script by having conversations about the material with each other or the audience.
  — Randall G. Mielke, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2021
• He was convicted on three counts: rape, criminal deviate conduct and robbery.
  — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2020
• Thomas faces preliminary charges of rape with deadly force, rape with deadly weapon, and criminal deviate conduct, IMPD said.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2018
• If passed by voters, Proposition N would allow residents to vote on developments that deviate from the city’s legally allowed plans.
  — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• If passed, Proposition N would allow residents to vote on developments that deviate from the city’s legally allowed plans in density or zoning.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• Yet the Brookhaven experiment and the latest results coming from the G-2 experiment at Fermilab deviate from this prediction.
  — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
• Proposition N, a citizens’ initiative that would allow voters to weigh in on developments that deviate from the city’s General Plan, looked to be passing with voters in early returns.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
• These upstarts deviate from the traditional manufacturing narrative in olive oil that often involves a plot of land that’s been in the family for generations.
  — Flora Tsapovksy, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2021
• Rather than drastically deviate from your norm, try keeping your caffeine intake consistent.
  — Sarah Garone, Health.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Manager Dave Roberts — despite criticism — didn’t deviate from giving Báez the ball in important situations.
  — Jorge Castillo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• The track falls under a new rule that sets a separate coefficient to tracks whose stream counts on a particular platform deviate significantly from the average balance of the overall market due to measures promoted by said streaming service.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 31 May 2022
• After submitting a plea agreement, Riley was sentenced to seven years for involuntary manslaughter and 31 years for criminal deviate conduct.
  — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 11 July 2017
• More recent research developments in CAR design deviate from this foundational model to finetune precision and function.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• But the philosophy of the Living Constitution affords unelected Justices the ability to offer interpretations of Constitutional or statutory law that deviate from its text and original meaning.
  — Tod Worner, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• However, issues with AI implementation complexity deviate one's attention from the actual problem of unfairness in society.
  — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• And so the question is, in the case, did the image and the artwork that Warhol created, did that deviate enough?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
• There’s no reason to trade any prospects at this point or deviate from the long-term plan with some rash move.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021
• For the spring 2021 season, Lemaire and Tran didn’t deviate from their formula.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2021
• Will Trump deviate beyond his usual script to discuss the events of January 6?
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 May 2022

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