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 of deviation
Because Erin is still more than one week away, meteorologists in Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast will be watching the storm closely, as any deviation east or west could lead to significant impacts.
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ABC News, 11 Aug. 2025
However these discrepancies can, in the long run, affect computers, satellites and telecommunications, which is why even the smallest time deviations are tracked using atomic clocks, which were introduced in 1955.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
People who could follow instructions, memorize workflow steps and execute them without deviation.
—Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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, 30 July 2025
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ABC News, 11 Aug. 2025
However these discrepancies can, in the long run, affect computers, satellites and telecommunications, which is why even the smallest time deviations are tracked using atomic clocks, which were introduced in 1955.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
People who could follow instructions, memorize workflow steps and execute them without deviation.
—Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviation
Noun
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Hoever’s departure from the first-team picture was far from ordinary.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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The bus shelter was on a paved section of the airport departures area where people were being dropped off by taxis, friends, family.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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When Phillips began walking to his office, Stiles, then a senior mass communication specialist, took a detour on the way.—
Noelle Wiehe,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2025
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The new detour is narrow and trail users are asked to slow down, watch for others and be mindful of the next-door equestrian neighbors.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Software configurability enables matching of transmit beam divergence to different receiver chip readout mode and formats.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Spending divergence now clear-cut The spending data mirrors the pay trends.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
13 Aug. 2025
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While Duck redeemed himself with a deflection during the final situational period of the day, the corners, overall, didn’t have the best showing across the past two days.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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Among the wider public, the sentiment has been less crude, but still characterized by deflection.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Deviation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviation. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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