diverge
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Both spent years working as community organizers, but now they diverge on issues such as policing and homeless policies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
As chromosome mixing accumulates over time, lineages continue to diverge.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Investors will be focused on where management is seeing demand soften versus remaining resilient, and whether current earnings growth can be sustained as capex trends increasingly diverge across sectors,” the bank says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lilly and Novo’s strategies have continued to diverge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Through well-tended gardens beyond her patio, narrow stone paths diverge.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Bowes thinks how the development corporation diverges from the local council will be important to watch.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 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
Directionally, the survey diverges from another big independent survey of consumers, published by the University of Michigan, which showed sentiment ticking higher in January as it bounced off near-record lows reached late last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
A range of gentle elevations commences in Opelousas, and gradually increasing in height as it advances, diverges toward the Sabine.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman
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
Their paths diverged when they were in their teens: Marlowe won a scholarship to Cambridge, while Shakespeare’s formal education likely ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Gallup numbers do not establish why Americans’ confidence has diverged so dramatically.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
But the two candidates have often diverged on priorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
I feel like the traveler in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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Ahead of the state-level votes, new Federal Reserve research shows diverging finances for America’s rich and poor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The world's second-largest economy has charted a diverging path in recent years -- an AI-fuelled export boom is masking the impact of a persistent real estate crisis and gloomy consumer sentiment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
But for all their diverging allegiances, tribal relatives remained reluctant to kill one another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Could two of California’s biggest cities be diverging?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And that seemed to be where she and her parents were diverging.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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