diverge
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The dispersion index rises when investors’ expectations for how certain individual stocks will move begins to diverge with the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
But as they mature their lives diverge, in part because Lenù’s parents can afford to keep her in school and Lila’s cannot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Or are they simply the result of the random loss of gene variants as populations become isolated and slowly diverge over time?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
“If the vote were to end in a tie, Deputy Governor Himino, acting as chair, would make the deciding call—but his decision would not diverge from Governor Ueda’s intentions,” JPMorgan’s Ayako Fujita said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Pollard and Woolf returned to the United States, where racing had been relegalized, and their careers began to diverge.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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In fact, Wilson argues that his view of a broadening in earnings growth and market leadership diverges from the Wall Street consensus.
From Barron's ● May 13, 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
Campbell makes the point “when the physical diverges so sharply from the paper like this, one of them is wrong and historically, it’s not physical.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
At Modena the main line to Verona through Suzzara and Mantua diverges to the N.; there is also a branch N.N.E. to Mirandola, and another S. to Vignola.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Rules diverged and were not globally standardised to seven-a-side until 1960.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
If their views diverged, they listened to each other instead of silently preparing a counterargument.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The framework follows genome evolution across three broad stages: before ancestral species diverged, during their separate evolutionary histories, and after their genomes merged.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
As you can see from the chart below, on each past occasion when bitcoin has diverged from its fair-value line, it has subsequently reverted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
Maybe his father had changed, diverged from his mother.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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If I were on patrol to figure out where online subcultures were diverging from political reality, I’d start there.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“We are concerned that housing demand and supply are set on diverging courses,” a team of analysts led by Ivy Zelman wrote in a 2021 examination of demographic trends.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Different festivals appear to have adopted markedly different pricing strategies - such as moving to day events or offering less camping - leading to diverging real costs for music lovers across the UK festival circuit.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Rather than uniting the Gulf countries against their common opponent, the war has deepened a schism between Saudi Arabia and the Emirates in which the two have taken diverging approaches to Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
On the other side of the world, beneath the Atlantic Ocean, the tectonic plates are moving apart, or diverging, which creates a more stable seismic environment.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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