diverge
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Lilly and Novo’s strategies have continued to diverge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Prices for, say, haircuts or hotels can diverge significantly because they can’t be shipped to another location.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But as they mature their lives diverge, in part because Lenù’s parents can afford to keep her in school and Lila’s cannot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Tesla and SpaceX stocks could diverge as Tesla reports vehicle deliveries on Thursday and SpaceX shares come off lockup.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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
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Here, “Maddie’s Secret” fully diverges from its semi-parodic path, following Maddie to treatment, which, like many people who end up in mandatory care facilities, she doesn’t take seriously, believing she knows her body best.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Bank of England’s decision aligns with the Federal Reserve but diverges from the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
But here is where the new theology diverges most sharply from the old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
It now supplies the Bahr Yusuf, which runs parallel with and west of the Ibrahimia, until it diverges to supply the Fayum—a distance of some 350 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Rules diverged and were not globally standardised to seven-a-side until 1960.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
So far, Micron’s earnings-estimate momentum has diverged for two quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Almost immediately, the program diverged from the outcomes McClure had envisioned.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Software and hardware technology stocks diverged, as the Europe-wide Stoxx 600 rose 0.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The facts on the ground in the housing market diverged further and further from the prices on the bonds and the insurance on the bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"I think audience members receive more positively men diverging from their expected roles," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
If I were on patrol to figure out where online subcultures were diverging from political reality, I’d start there.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“We are concerned that housing demand and supply are set on diverging courses,” a team of analysts led by Ivy Zelman wrote in a 2021 examination of demographic trends.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
To prevent prices of perpetual futures from diverging too dramatically from the spot price of the underlying asset, perpetual futures traded on exchanges like Hyperliquid rely on a mechanism called funding rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
On the other side of the world, beneath the Atlantic Ocean, the tectonic plates are moving apart, or diverging, which creates a more stable seismic environment.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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