deviate
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Over longer horizons, though, leveraged ETFs can deviate sharply from the assets they track—often resulting in titanic gains or devastating losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
Tehran insists on controlling the waterway, saying it will charge fees for passage and threatening to hit vessels that deviate from its authorised route.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 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
The shortcut was only one-way and didn’t deviate.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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This measurement describes the amount of optical error in the system, or how far the incoming light deviates from an ideal, perfectly focused wavefront.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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
But playing it safe comes with its own risks: If a familiar artist deviates from his or her usual mode, it can repel a loyal following.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
He never deviates or lets himself be swayed by the voices outside the door, begging him to open up before a disaster occurs.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Overseas, synthetic tokens, which track stock prices without conferring ownership rights, sometimes deviated significantly from real stock values during off hours and periods of low trading volume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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
The effect on sentiment, the researchers find, comes not just from higher prices, but from how far and how often conditions have deviated from the relative stability that defined the prepandemic period.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The passenger jet had left Seoul earlier that day, bound for Anchorage, Alaska, and had deviated off course into Soviet airspace.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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 closest Sabbs and Colvin came to deviating from McDonald’s sanitized version of events came when the directors recognized the role Geoghan played in launching the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
She walked a straight line to the ocean, for the pools had frozen and she could follow her compass without deviating.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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