diverted

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Wilson, a critic and the author of “Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers,” is unusually candid about her own mixed feelings toward Lawrence.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Diverted spending also will affect the Air Force, including $45.1 million for two projects to update 70-year-old munitions storage.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2019

Diverted to JFK, landed heavy on R/W 4L resulting in smoking, hot brakes causing two tires on each main gear to rupture.

From Fox News • Sep. 25, 2018

One thing is for sure - he did little on Wednesday to explain how a Diverted Profits Tax worked.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2014

I find he knows I can sing to other Peoples sense, I'll try now if I can make him sing to mine: And when he Diverts, or is Diverted with Vox, then, Preterea nihil.

From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Krutch, Joseph Wood