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Recent Examples of deviating
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Reagan championed free trade while selectively deviating from it, according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Occurring more than halfway through the performance, the scene is used to introduce the tragic backstory of the Phantom character at a freak show — a new narrative deviating from the original source material.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
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
Verb
And while that's true, the show is also its own beast, deviating greatly from King's story by weaving in military intrigue, spycraft, and Native American mythology.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Reagan championed free trade while selectively deviating from it, according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Occurring more than halfway through the performance, the scene is used to introduce the tragic backstory of the Phantom character at a freak show — a new narrative deviating from the original source material.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviating
Adjective
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As a result of this framework, the company has cut direct and indirect GHG emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions) by 84 percent from its baseline from Fiscal Year 2021.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Tomatoes root best in bright, indirect light, but once their roots have sprouted, they should be moved to a location with strong, bright light and watered regularly.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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With goal difference not a factor in this three-match format, there was no incentive for Miami to push forward in the final period, and Nashville never looked like turning the contest around.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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But Drew Mestekmaker and North Texas’ high-flying offense wouldn’t be denied, turning a three-point deficit midway through the third quarter into a 34-point road victory, keeping their College Football Playoff hopes alive.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With stunning celerity, possibility becomes probability and then certainty, as readers reject the quiet, circuitous, and unglamorous narratives of prudential compromise, ambiguous diplomacy, or incremental progress.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Iza’s path into this world was circuitous.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That’s not a roundabout way of calling the Murdaughs ugly or implying the series’ costume, makeup, and hair departments haven’t done their best to knock the dashing Jason Clarke down a peg.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
5 Nov. 2025
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In this roundabout way, the pledge would redound to China’s benefit, too, as long as Beijing truly does not wish to use force to annex Taiwan.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Other fits have been hateful, veering into racist and antisemitic diatribes.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Despite this, most of these models show the storm veering into the Dominican Republic or heading northeast, toward the Bahamas.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Consider a night out with friends, and the diverging consequences of buying a round of shots versus opening up Instagram.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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Now, among residents aged 15 to 49, those rates are about 5% higher, a pattern that began diverging in the 2000s and has steadily widened.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Deviating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviating. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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