as in veering
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course
the fox zigged to the right, and the hounds followed
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veering
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Other fits have been hateful, veering into racist and antisemitic diatribes.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
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Despite this, most of these models show the storm veering into the Dominican Republic or heading northeast, toward the Bahamas.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Zigging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zigging. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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