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deviate

[dee-vee-eyt, dee-vee-it] / ˈdi viˌeɪt, ˈdi vi ɪt /


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Whether this legal challenge will succeed depends in part on whether judges will continue to defer to the president on these particular levies, no matter how much they deviate from previous practice.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Department of Justice sued RealPage, a Texas-based software company, alleging it gathered private data from landlords to set rent prices and make it difficult for property managers to deviate from these price recommendations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

He has faced calls from opposition parties to set out his plans, confirm who he intends to appoint to his cabinet and explain whether or not he will deviate from Labour's 2024 manifesto.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

“These origin stories deviate sharply” from the “logocentric” creation stories of Judeo-Christian origin, writes Maria Tatar in “Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Periods where inflation deviates more from target than unemployment are associated with tightening monetary policy.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

In doing so, the measurement deviates from lived experience, especially for cash-strapped Americans who are most exposed by these price changes.

From Slate Apr. 24, 2026

To evaluate a dog’s alterations, said Packer, consider how much it deviates from the original archetype: the wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

For both her and her audience, a woman who deviates even slightly — such as by marrying a much-younger man — simply can’t exist.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2025

He never deviates or lets himself be swayed by the voices outside the door, begging him to open up before a disaster occurs.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Tusk said Polish air defence would have shot down the missile if it had deviated from its trajectory and headed toward populated areas.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

All throughout, NewsNation deviated away from a focus on local newscasts, instead recruiting media celebrities who’d lost their jobs at other networks: CNN’s Chris Cillizza, Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt, Newsmax’s Sean Spicer.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2026

Despite heavy bleeding and a deviated septum, Davies continued playing.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

However, some of these tokenized offerings have significantly deviated in value from underlying shares and critics point out that they are technically derivatives that don’t convey the same shareholder rights as underlying securities.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

The passenger jet had left Seoul earlier that day, bound for Anchorage, Alaska, and had deviated off course into Soviet airspace.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

But the new practitioners of the FDE strategy are deviating fundamentally from Palantir’s original design in a way that makes them unlikely to achieve the same success, people familiar with Palantir’s FDE approach say.

From MarketWatch Apr. 4, 2026

The term AOR originated in the late ’60s with the ascent of FM radio, when rock stations began deviating from the Top 40 format and played some more-obscure album cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

He believes the asset manager erred in deviating from the contractual terms of the fund agreements.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

That night, Roberts removed Ohtani from his no-hit bid because, as he put it after the game, he didn’t feel comfortable deviating from the superstar’s prescripted pitching plan.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

As if Frederick understands already that both have been assigned to their specific courses, that there is no deviating now.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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