deflect

If this fails, Merz could deflect attention by surrendering his party’s chair to a more popular figure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Great entrepreneurs get an inbound flow of information every minute of the day and deflect the noise.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Of course, so much of what’s otherwise known points a finger directly back at Taylor Farms, false-positive atom splitting notwithstanding, and there’s only so much the company can do to deflect.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Many Mexican players were shorter than their English counterparts and England was content to let Mexico keep sending crosses into the box England could easily deflect during the final 30 minutes of play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

A detached parry uses the wrist, snapping fingers, and the blade’s flexibility to deflect.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

At best, blaming technology that helps property managers deflects from the real issue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

In the event that he does have a partner, and that partner raises problems with the way he lives, Wallen’s narrator deflects blame.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Michaels deflects the question, shifting the spotlight from him to the show: “I’m going to do it as long as I feel I can do it,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024

Scientists can infer the value of the QGP's electrical conductivity from how much the electromagnetic field deflects charged particles such as electrons, quarks, and protons.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

"Large objects such as stars curve spacetime strongly -- for example, we can observe this when light rays are deflected by massive stars. But smaller masses also produce spacetime curvature, just to a lesser extent."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

It was McGregor who opened the scoring on the night, a deflected shot and a 4-0 lead on aggregate.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Galaxy goalkeeper reacted in time and deflected the shot with his right leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Charged particles of solar wind constantly catapult toward Earth, but most get deflected by the magnetosphere, which acts like a real-life Star Trek shield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The missiles deflected off Aegis, but the force of their impact knocked Thalia down.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

I had only one sartorial concern at the time: deflecting male attention whenever possible.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Tuchel has spent recent months deflecting debate about whether Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham or Morgan Rogers of Aston Villa should take England's number 10 role when the stakes are at their highest.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Berenger won’t be able to get out of this jam, though deflecting the unwanted is one of his specialties.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

After a long legal saga, TikTok has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, deflecting the threat of a ban over its Chinese ownership.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Eveillard, balding and with a dirty shirt, had been deflecting the barbs of some of the American-born officers, with limited success.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover