diverted
Example Sentences
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"It's extremely worrying that ambulances are having to be diverted, in some cases hundreds of miles, to the Highlands and Tayside. This simply should not be happening."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Ships being inspected, diverted or blocked would be a completely different story.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Pity flyers who were diverted to airports hours away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Around 90 flights had been diverted because of the outage, he said early Monday afternoon, and delays compounded at Newark and Philadelphia—the hardest-hit airports—with spillover disruptions at the other New York City airports and Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Restorative justice is sometimes used in Alameda County as an alternative to criminal court for juveniles accused of felonies, a process known as diversion because the accused is diverted away from criminal court.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
