as in turning
to change one's course or direction
sailors forced to deviate from their course in order to avoid the storm
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Recent Examples of deviating
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Her memory of that day never flagged, every detail remaining crystal clear, her story never deviating.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Design With Flexibility In Mind Users don’t always behave as expected, often deviating from the ideal path designers envision.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Her memory of that day never flagged, every detail remaining crystal clear, her story never deviating.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviating
Verb
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Kempes scored his second on the stroke of half-time in extra time, bundling his way past two Dutch defenders and goalkeeper Jongbloed before scrappily turning home a shot that deflected in off Wim Suurbier.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Knudsen, chief scientific adviser in research and early development at Novo Nordisk, played a pivotal role in turning it into an effective drug promoting weight loss that millions of people take today.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some indirect impacts, such as dangerous waves and currents, are expected.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Direct and indirect stock holdings, including in mutual funds or retirement plans, accounted for an all-time high of 45% of households’ financial assets in the second quarter, according to Federal Reserve data.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Two of the most prominent examples of Nvidia’s web of circuitous investments are OpenAI and Coreweave.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Netanyahu, traveling to the United Nations General Assembly, briefly flew over Greece and Italy, but then took a circuitous route across the Mediterranean, directly over the strait of Gibraltar and then across the Atlantic, according to FlightRadar24 records viewed by ABC News.—
Sam Sweeney,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Austin Abrams, who stole scenes as an unhoused drug addict in Cregger’s hit Weapons this past summer, is leading the feature, which is veering away from the previous adaptations and is meant to be a love letter to the original Capcom video games while using brand new characters.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Case in point, de Saint Sernin veering from fashion to conceive a sleek leather chair.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The way people typically die in intersections is often because of head-on and T-bone crashes, which the roundabout design addresses, Bryson said.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Hernandez has had a roundabout big-league career.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok has also noted the recent graduate unemployment rate is diverging for men and women.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Some state public health officials have decided to make their own vaccine recommendations, diverging from the CDC for the first time in its 80-year history.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Deviating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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