diverge
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But it demonstrated how quietly prices can diverge when the shopper sees only the number assigned to her.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The market can show “little mercy when expectations and reported figures diverge, and AI-related stocks quickly began to show cracks,” Lee added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hammack said she sees a forecast as a yardstick and not a prediction: a way to measure her expectations against reality and adjust as the two diverge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
In the elementary school years, their trajectories diverge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Not only did variation and dip diverge from place to place, but in 1634 a group of English experimenters claimed that variation fluctuated over time.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The Swiss franc fell to a 16-month low against the dollar on Tuesday as the Swiss National Bank’s cautious stance on raising interest rates diverges from its peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
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
This is where Kurashov's account diverges from that of the prosecution and the Russian soldiers testifying against him.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
When the medium of exchange diverges in value from the ultimate standard, as in the case of the American Greenbacks during the period from 1862 to 1879, we have, sometimes, shifting relations among the functions.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Even Denisovans themselves, as today’s study adds further weight to, received gene flow from something older and more diverged — likely H. erectus.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Tech firms diverged Thursday with a mixed bag of results for some of the AI sector's big beasts tempering the recent spurt of optimism amid growing anxiety about companies' investment and debt.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
They have both grown since then—Apollo manages about $1 trillion, while Ares manages about $670 billion—but their strategies have diverged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Gallup numbers do not establish why Americans’ confidence has diverged so dramatically.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
We had remained friends in a kind of theoretical sense, but our paths had diverged wildly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Flash PMI data showed that business activity is diverging across different markets as geopolitical and macroeconomic conditions affect the private sector and inflation to various extents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"China's economy continues to show diverging signals, as consumption and investment remain weak while industrial production maintains the momentum," Zhiwei Zhang, President and Chief Economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, wrote in an analyst note.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
These diverging proposals point to a lack of consensus in Congress - but also an urgency among some lawmakers to take action.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Performance among that “Magnificent Seven” group has been diverging in recent months.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Line isn’t a single line but many, diverging and intersecting.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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