1
as in veering
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course
the car swerved sharply to avoid the squirrel in the road
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2
as in curving
to turn away from a straight line or course
the bike path gently swerves to the right
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as in bending
to cause to turn away from a straight line
a dog dashed out in front of me and made me swerve my bike to one side of the bike path
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as in deviating
to change one's course or direction
the hurricane had been following the coastline before it swerved and headed inland
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Recent Examples of swerving
The film, which is set to bow in Un Certain Regard on May 21, tumbles through tones, swerving through pitch-black humor, empathy, fury and larger-than-life moments.
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William Earl, Variety, 20 May 2026
Other officers then found the Tahoe heading north on South Lee’s Summit Road near East 23rd Street, allegedly swerving through traffic.
—Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
The April 2 Instagram post showed the father-and-son duo swerving down the slopes during a skiing outing.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Follow a swamp airboat swerving along a Louisiana bayou.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
Five cars heading straight for us, skidding and swerving in crazy figure eights.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Applied to traffic, less trash means fewer vehicles are swerving or having tires damaged.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 10 May 2026
According to police, Ebert drove through the neighborhood honking the horn of a 2001 Buick LeSabre before swerving toward William Yates, who attempted to avoid the vehicle.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 May 2026
The man also was allegedly swerving into oncoming traffic.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 3 May 2026
William Earl, Variety, 20 May 2026
Other officers then found the Tahoe heading north on South Lee’s Summit Road near East 23rd Street, allegedly swerving through traffic.
—Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
The April 2 Instagram post showed the father-and-son duo swerving down the slopes during a skiing outing.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Follow a swamp airboat swerving along a Louisiana bayou.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
Five cars heading straight for us, skidding and swerving in crazy figure eights.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Applied to traffic, less trash means fewer vehicles are swerving or having tires damaged.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 10 May 2026
According to police, Ebert drove through the neighborhood honking the horn of a 2001 Buick LeSabre before swerving toward William Yates, who attempted to avoid the vehicle.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 May 2026
The man also was allegedly swerving into oncoming traffic.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 3 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swerving
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The palette is simple, veering from cozy earth tones to bright whites.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
20 May 2026
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Search vibes Google’s more-AI-than-ever search experience is also veering into experiences that don’t really feel like a search engine.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2026
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Mutable clay offers a contrast to precise silver, in a composition that has the curving voids reminiscent of Joan Lurie and Henry Moore.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
17 May 2026
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High up on the curving walls to either side were large murals painted in the 1930s by the artist Barry Faulkner portraying Thomas Jefferson handing the Declaration to John Hancock and the ratification of the Constitution.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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If something about the now-problematic gender-bending killer of Camp Miasma reminds you of 1983’s Sleepaway Camp, Schoenbrun is not coy about the parallel.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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The galaxy's red and orange spiral arms bending outward can measure tens or even hundreds of light-years across.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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Charles Melton sweetly dedicated an award to his wife and newborn daughter, deviating from his famously private nature.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
10 May 2026
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However, it was criticized by pacifists at home and China for deviating from Japan’s postwar self-defense only principle.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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With gracefully arching foliage, daylilies add texture and movement to garden borders and pathways.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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Flow between arching and rounding your back to improve spinal mobility.—
Christopher Bergland,
Verywell Health,
11 May 2026
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But surviving in absolute uncertainty, turning from somebody to nobody at the age of forty-three, and starting everything from scratch in another language, seemed an affordable price to pay compared to being paralysed with fear or having to be brave all the time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Concrete dust clotted the air, turning the afternoon dark.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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Guys hooking drives into the next county.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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While hooking paying customers remains a challenge for most of the AI industry, Grok stands out as a particularly terrible performer.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
14 May 2026
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“Swerving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swerving. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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