divert
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For India, however, sugar availability could improve next year if high prices prompt mills to divert less cane to ethanol.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
"At current sugar prices, it simply doesn't make economic sense for mills to divert cane juice to ethanol, so India's sugar scenario should be quite all right going forward," Chaturvedi said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
That must include steps to end the use of any "coercive measure to divert the natural movement of the elephants", it read.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
In Romania, authorities set off an explosion beside a river to divert much-needed water to a power plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.”
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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It did strike me as odd, however, that “Tony” is forged on a factual alteration that diverts Tony from the kitchen far too often — the movie’s cardinal sin.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Yet even the best projections can crumble if, say, a parent loses a high-paying job or diverts money from their own retirement account to fund a 529 plan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
So I will not ring a bell every time the miniseries, which admittedly bills itself as “inspired by a true story,” diverts from the record, even though in my head it may be clanging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
The petitioner suggests repurposing a building at nearby Chapelfield Gardens as a dovecote and source of food, in the hope it diverts pigeons away from the market.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Instinctively, my hands fold like I’m praying, and then I extend my arms forward, cutting through the splendor as it diverts in either direction, barely avoiding me on either side.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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What happens here, mechanically speaking, is that liquidity is sucked out of the financial system and diverted to the real economy, in Howell’s words.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
LNG cargoes from October, alongside diverted shipments from Egypt, which could ease some supply concerns, according to Fahnrich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge this week denied a request to be diverted into mental health treatment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kazakhstan's cloud-seeding trials raised alarm in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan where fears were flagged of "cloud theft" -- alleging that rain clouds could be diverted to Kazakhstan, aggravating its own drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Before she could ask what he meant, she was diverted by the sight of Nat Eaton swinging along the deck in their direction.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Starting in early 2025, Salisbury oversaw the unprecedented reassignment of more than 6,000 agents to immigration enforcement, diverting most of the agency from its normal duties.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
This could include cutting taxes on investors’ gains on U.K. stocks, or diverting more of the U.K.’s mammoth personal savings toward domestic stocks, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
He is accused of diverting $2 million in public funds to finance his first presidential campaign.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Liberal Democrat cabinet member for environmental services, Chris Wiggin, said the event was "diverting textiles from waste by prioritising reuse and recycling instead of being discarded as waste".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
By diverting snowmelt from the ever-present Andes icecaps to high farm terraces, Wari was able literally to rise above the drought and flooding of lower elevations.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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