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For two players raised and taught by the same tennis-instructor parents, the brothers Zverev play tennis about as divergently as you could imagine.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2017

Capsule obcordately 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves divergently 2-lobed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

I dive and make a great fuss of attacking, then I steer divergently.

From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by Sir Stephen King-Hall

The existing groups, according to this hypothesis, have developed in different areas independently and divergently by continuous adaptation to their several environments.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Thereupon he leisurely consumed the property in dispute, shut his eyes, yawned, turned upon his back, thrust out his legs divergently, and died.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce




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