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diverge

[dih-vurj, dahy-] / dɪˈvɜrdʒ, daɪ- /




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As chromosome mixing accumulates over time, lineages continue to diverge.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

There are lots of reasons the numbers can diverge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Both Turkey and Israel "agree on the stability of Syria, but diverge on the definition of stability itself."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The dispersion index rises when investors’ expectations for how certain individual stocks will move begins to diverge with the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Martin’s books may recognize that this diverges from the written version of Westeros lore.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Norton, the showrunner of Netflix’s “Finding Her Edge,” said much of that show’s plot diverges from Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Directionally, the survey diverges from another big independent survey of consumers, published by the University of Michigan, which showed sentiment ticking higher in January as it bounced off near-record lows reached late last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Campbell makes the point “when the physical diverges so sharply from the paper like this, one of them is wrong and historically, it’s not physical.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

Just before we reach the seventh milestone from Cambridge another south-running lane diverges to Caldecote, with its retired little fane on the hill-side over the Bourn, a very oasis of devotional peace and quietude.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

UC admissions data for fall 2026 show a record number of Californians were admitted, even as acceptance rates diverged sharply between its most and least selective campuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Researchers estimate that the four gentoo species diverged during the past 300,000 to 500,000 years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

This wouldn’t be the first time names for bodies of water have diverged around the world.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Some construction is paused at a Midtown building being converted to about 600 apartments after activity diverged from approved design plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Once, when the road diverged, Tristran was concerned that they might take the wrong fork.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

"China's economy continues to show diverging signals, as consumption and investment remain weak while industrial production maintains the momentum," Zhiwei Zhang, President and Chief Economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, wrote in an analyst note.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas raised its benchmark overnight reverse repurchase rate to 5.00% from 4.75%, diverging from some regional peers, including Bank Indonesia and Bank of Thailand, which left their rates unchanged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Could two of California’s biggest cities be diverging?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Our overweight sectors, Tech, Industrials, Financials, have seen diverging fundamentals & performance trends this quarter, which we see as attractive buying opportunities,” the Wells Fargo team wrote in a Sunday client note.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Some prescient part of him saw the two paths diverging in the yellow wood.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon




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