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It draws a very strong red line for telco companies who try to deviate from the EU’s net neutrality rules.

From Fortune

So you want to aim by default for the perfect portage in order to minimize wasted time, then deviate from it deliberately only when hunger or scenery or whatever calls for it.

The new film already deviates from the original in other ways — it’s lost most of the songs, removed many of the comical aspects, and even jettisoned the original love story.

From Vox

But, in the hands of two Brits, playwright Alice Birch and director William Oldroyd, the story migrates to the UK as well as deviating from the novella’s ending.

From Vox

As lockdowns ease, there’s a willingness among many advertisers to deviate from their tried-and-tested media plans.

From Digiday

We might not be off the mark nine out of 10 times, but we deviate plenty.

Why have conservative jurists become so willing to deviate from an originalist viewpoint on the Second Amendment?

The deer have regular runs, from which they rarely deviate, and which do not vary in the course of years.

Might it not be the nature of bodies, or of some particular bodies, to deviate towards the right?

I will not deviate in the least from the precepts and examples of the ancients, who were always our best masters.

Ptolemy's and Pliny's versions, Diamouna and Jomanes, do not deviate much from the original.

If he deviate only a few cents, the expert buyers of retail stores will know it and go elsewhere.

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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deviate, such as: depart, differ, diverge, vary, veer, and aberrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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