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adjective

as in turning

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verb

present participle of veer
1
as in deviating
to change one's course or direction at this point the river veers to the southwest before finally emptying into the Atlantic Ocean

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2
as in swinging
to change the course or direction of (something) veered the ship abruptly to the right to avoid a collision

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3
as in cutting
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course without warning the car veered to the left and into an oncoming truck

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Recent Examples of veering
Verb
Aiyuk began veering away from the team’s rehabilitation protocol soon after the surgery, failing to communicate with the team — a recurrent theme between Aiyuk and the 49ers — and preferring to rehabilitate on his own. — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 27 July 2026 No matter the role, Zendaya has turned method dressing into an art form, consistently finding ways to nod to a character without veering into costume territory. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 23 July 2026 Prudence suggests pulling one or two colors from your floral pattern and incorporating them into your space to create an intentional feel that doesn’t start veering into matchy-matchy territory. — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026 Video obtained by the Daily News shows the truck veering left toward the middle of Roosevelt Ave. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 12 July 2026 At the time, there was some thought that CNN could win over some of the Fox News audience by veering away from the anti-Trump attitudes. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 July 2026 Something worth veering off a highway for, that feels like a missing part of myself. — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026 Earlier this month, hikers in Glacier National Park filmed two young grizzly bears sprinting down a trail before veering off into the surrounding wilderness. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 Polly Voss At one point, the video shows Ross' car veering out of the express lane, nearly colliding with a passing vehicle driven by a 17-year-old girl. — Brian Maass, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veering
  1. twisted
  2. deviating
  3. turning
  4. cutting
  5. warped
  6. whipping
  7. swerving
  8. kinked
Adjective
  • Visitors will enter the Price family’s secluded vacation home in the woods, succumb to ferocious flesh-eating Deadites and pass through other twisted scenes from the latest movie in the Evil Dead Burn haunted house.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
  • Massive Attack, Tricky’s alma mater, once trod similar ground, and several songs here bring to mind their own twisted rock opus Mezzanine, for better or worse.
    — Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Definition of twisted
Verb
  • Practicing deviating from our defaults, no matter how mundane, prepares us to deviate again, even in higher stakes contexts.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • The highly disguised initial view of the model undergoing final testing showed the luxury marque deviating away from its traditional upright boxy off-road SUVs into a new territory.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 July 2026
Definition of deviating
Verb
  • That starts early, with Lily accusing Sam of turning her and Zac into an all-Asian team to compete against the whites.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
  • While these signings rarely generate major headlines immediately, the Dodgers have developed a reputation for turning under-the-radar acquisitions into legitimate prospects.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of turning
Verb
  • Seattle kept it close, cutting the lead to single digits in the fourth quarter before Atlanta held firm.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The workshops include all ingredients and participants learn skills such as cutting and folding meats, placement and spacing for jams and honeys.
    — Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Definition of cutting
Adjective
  • The signal degrades at every step along this journey, and the guessers have to do their best with some pretty warped data.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
  • Googlers peppered the executives with anxious questions about whether products like YouTube were reinforcing warped beliefs and making the country more divided.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of warped
Verb
  • Iguanas usually go viral for other reasons Iguanas are usually quick-moving and run away from their would-be captors with their long tails whipping behind them.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • The attorney questioned whether a person would be able to smell alcohol at the same time that wind generated by 18-wheelers and other vehicles whipping by on the highway was blowing, as was occurring during the officer’s time with Hampton.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
Definition of whipping
Verb
  • But Cinderella keeps going, winding her way through Querétaro, swerving toward the old colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, then bending northeast.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • As Warner begins to ponder the effects of time, his son runs and bounces through the living room, swerving around the breakfast he’s being coaxed to eat.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of swerving
Adjective
  • Stafford explains that this gap helps keep the hoses from being crushed or kinked, which can lead to speedy wear and tear, leaks, and drainage issues.
    — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
  • Twin brothers, these rapscallions can be told apart by Boris’s kinked tail and the colors of their collars.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of kinked

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