deviation

Example Sentences

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“Pekingology,” as this Chinese analog of Kremlinology is known, often involves poring over official speeches, documents and state-media coverage in a bid to divine insights from language, behavior and deviations from the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its deviations from the source material are digressions done with love.

From Salon

Even in strong relationships, deviation creates noise—and noise is costly.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to Bespoke, a sector index is extremely overbought when it is trading more than two standard deviations above its 50-day moving average, which underscores the speed of this shift.

From MarketWatch

On that day, the S&P 500 was trading in overbought territory, which Bespoke and many others define as one standard deviation above the index’s 50-day moving average.

From MarketWatch