deflect
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Los Palos Street Operating LLC, a subsidiary of Altus Power, said Lineage was attempting to deflect responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Great entrepreneurs get an inbound flow of information every minute of the day and deflect the noise.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Of course, so much of what’s otherwise known points a finger directly back at Taylor Farms, false-positive atom splitting notwithstanding, and there’s only so much the company can do to deflect.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Andreeva, 19, has consistently attempted to deflect any discussion about the war and did the same again before playing Kostyuk.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
So now she composed her mind and brought all her concentration to bear on the matter of altering the way she held herself so as to deflect attention completely.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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The pastor instead deflects responsibility by playing the victim card.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
At best, blaming technology that helps property managers deflects from the real issue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Michaels deflects the question, shifting the spotlight from him to the show: “I’m going to do it as long as I feel I can do it,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
Scientists can infer the value of the QGP's electrical conductivity from how much the electromagnetic field deflects charged particles such as electrons, quarks, and protons.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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Fenech denied the accusations, and during the trial he deflected blame towards his one-time close friend Keith Schembri, former chief of staff of then-prime minister Joseph Muscat and a target of Caruana Galizia's stories.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Large objects such as stars curve spacetime strongly -- for example, we can observe this when light rays are deflected by massive stars. But smaller masses also produce spacetime curvature, just to a lesser extent."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
One angled drive saved, another acrobatic effort deflected wide.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The Galaxy goalkeeper reacted in time and deflected the shot with his right leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Battlehawk aimed a kick at him, but Windplume deflected it.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The sequence started with Bosnian defender Stjepan Radeljic sliding in front of a Tillman pass, deflecting it forward toward Muharemovic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
I had only one sartorial concern at the time: deflecting male attention whenever possible.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Tuchel has spent recent months deflecting debate about whether Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham or Morgan Rogers of Aston Villa should take England's number 10 role when the stakes are at their highest.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
After a long legal saga, TikTok has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, deflecting the threat of a ban over its Chinese ownership.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
The turtle’s filmy inner eyelids blinked with uncanny precision, deflecting each shot.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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