How to Use divergent in a Sentence

divergent

adjective

• The schools have been on divergent paths since meeting in the BCS title game at the end of the 2009 season.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• Lurie’s fandom, of course, took a divergent path in 1994.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• Since then, divergent accounts have emerged about what the two sides discussed and agreed to.
  — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• What has made the thievery so unique is the divergent approaches.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• Despite their divergent paths, the men shared things in common.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• Much has been made of Hailey Bieber and husband Justin Bieber’s divergent styles.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
• Are two point guards with wildly divergent styles one too many?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Many of the characters have embarked down divergent paths, and Alina's might be the darkest of them all.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The challenge is to transition from a convergent state of mind to a divergent one.
  — Saurabh Chandekar, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2022
• Prisca falls somewhere in the middle of these divergent women.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
• The divergent results come ahead of the critical Black Friday, one of the largest single shopping days.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, the two parties have pursued divergent legislative paths.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• The notably divergent game plans were on full display this weekend.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Nov. 2022
• What’s happening in the body that can lead to such divergent reactions?
  — Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF, 29 Aug. 2022
• In fact, in recent years the components have been more divergent than in any expansion on record.
  — Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
• How rapidly to make the switch is a central question, one that is driving divergent strategies.
  — Ryan Felton, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• One clear takeaway from the conference is how divergent the energy prospects for the U.S. and Europe are for the next few winters.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2022
• The knowledge passed down to Bratton only goes so far with a new coaching staff as a divergent scheme is implanted this spring.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 22 Mar. 2023
• This is a story in which there are divergent human responses to what the role is of human beings in nature.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• That chaos is one reason for the widely divergent death toll estimates.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• But to say the two rivals have taken divergent paths since would be an understatement.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2022
• But none of those projects left quite the impression, for starkly divergent reasons, that Fall Guy and Oppenheimer did.
  — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
• His books and his scholarship cleared a space where divergent stories — from the streets and in neighborhoods — could be told by other voices.
  — D. J. Waldie, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• One small measure of how uncertain the outlook for 2023 is: divergent takes among analysts on the path ahead for healthcare stocks.
  — David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• The negotiating teams came to the table with divergent views of the drivers of federal debt in recent years.
  — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• The three central characters are played in wildly divergent keys.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Within three days and 160 miles of each other, two divergent paths for New York Republicans were on full display last week.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Yet until recently, the wildly divergent rates at which life can mutate were known for only a handful of species.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Their divergent visions for Georgia's future haven't changed much, though.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
• The film, which was set during China’s Boxer Rebellion, charted the divergent fates of two half sisters, one white and the other of mixed Chinese and white descent.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024