deviate from
Example Sentences
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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
Perhaps the two major parties can allow their members to deviate from business casual, since they control the overwhelming majority of elected offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Active management allows He and his three co-managers to deviate from risk parity if the team favors a particular asset class.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
The person should have known that their conduct was wrong and didn’t just deviate from what was right, but substantially deviated.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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