divergently
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For two players raised and taught by the same tennis-instructor parents, the brothers Zverev play tennis about as divergently as you could imagine.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2017
The existing groups, according to this hypothesis, have developed in different areas independently and divergently by continuous adaptation to their several environments.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
A faint shout came to Bensington's ears, and then he perceived the remaining two rats bolting divergently, and Cossar in pursuit towards the holes.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Capsule obcordately 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves divergently 2-lobed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Hence, at a little distance, the whole mass of foliage seems to consist of tufts, each containing a tassel of long pointed leaves, drooping divergently from a common centre.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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