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deviate

[dee-vee-eyt, dee-vee-it] / ˈdi viˌeɪt, ˈdi vi ɪt /


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These are ideas that have proved successful in modern football but Carrick's United deviate from this approach more than most.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Whether this legal challenge will succeed depends in part on whether judges will continue to defer to the president on these particular levies, no matter how much they deviate from previous practice.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Department of Justice sued RealPage, a Texas-based software company, alleging it gathered private data from landlords to set rent prices and make it difficult for property managers to deviate from these price recommendations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

You risk breaking the finance-bro code by flashing signs of conspicuous consumption or daring to deviate from the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s been a long trip,” I said, trying to deviate the conversation away from the drowned man.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

She deviates from the one-note mean girl role, supplying Gen with dimensionality and kindness that characters like these were rarely afforded.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Periods where inflation deviates more from target than unemployment are associated with tightening monetary policy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

In doing so, the measurement deviates from lived experience, especially for cash-strapped Americans who are most exposed by these price changes.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026

ChatGPT won’t follow these instructions consistently, but at least when it deviates, you can get it back on track quickly with a reminder like, “Hey, you’re supposed to give me questions, not answers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

She rarely deviates from her original pattern, her hymn of particulars.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Boeing described these as “off-market customer contracts” where “the terms of the contract deviated from the terms that a market participant could have achieved.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

As if to signal this iteration hasn’t completely deviated from its roots, in the show’s opening moments, Deborah Wayne coolly flicks the iconic flip-up frames made famous by Hardison’s Dwayne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Tusk said Polish air defence would have shot down the missile if it had deviated from its trajectory and headed toward populated areas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

They often must provide evidence that the government willfully violated a policy or otherwise deviated from its charge — that is, did something irregular — to overcome the standard.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But the deal broke down shortly afterward when Iran fired on commercial ships in Hormuz that it accused of deviating from its approved route through the waterway.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Punjab police said there was "absolutely no justification for deviating from our established protocols" and that it was conducting a "thorough and impartial investigation".

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

But the new practitioners of the FDE strategy are deviating fundamentally from Palantir’s original design in a way that makes them unlikely to achieve the same success, people familiar with Palantir’s FDE approach say.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026

The term AOR originated in the late ’60s with the ascent of FM radio, when rock stations began deviating from the Top 40 format and played some more-obscure album cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

It is not a system that allows for deviating.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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