diversion
Example Sentences
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Diversion programmes are initiatives that allow alternatives like treatment for people with mental illness who are caught up in the criminal justice system.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Diversion from landfill has increased, but so too has a surge of illegal waste dumping in the Antelope Valley suggesting the law may be having some unintended consequences.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Garcia, the public defender, also expressed frustration that Hochman’s prosecutors have been fighting attempts to get defendants into the county’s Rapid Diversion Program, which allows defendants to get treatment without taking on a criminal conviction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2025
The upper Green River has been inaccessible to Chinook and coho salmon and steelhead since the Tacoma Headworks Diversion Dam went into operation in the 1910s.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024
Diversion and recreation, with the exception of reading, were unknown.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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