as in departure
a turning away from a course or standard a memoir that was discovered to contain numerous deviations from fact

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Recent Examples on the Web Experian’s annual holiday trends report showed some deviation from 2023 and 2022 while buttressing the findings of other consumer surveys. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024 But certain parts of the left could never see the War on Terror as a deviation. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024 If not, then now is the opportunity to raise any deviations and iron things out before signing. Veronica Ramirez, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio. Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for deviation 

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“Deviation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviation. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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