as in veered
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course
the ship yawed hard to the right when the rogue wave hit it broadside
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Last spring, both Katelynn and Jaelen were in the car with their son when their Ford F-150 veered off the road and collided with a tree, per a Louisiana State Police press release shared the day of the crash.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026 -
The Colorado Department of Transportation will try again on Monday to recover a snowplow that veered off a highway and became stuck earlier this week.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Yawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yawed. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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