deviation
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Gittens added there had been a "significant deviation" from the expected standards of care and "missed opportunities".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
They showed significant deterioration in several measures, including elevator and aileron control, landing accuracy and vertical and lateral deviation on approach.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Economists estimate each standard deviation of achievement is worth $110,000 to $230,000 in lifetime earnings, so $10 billion buys roughly three years of that gain for two million children, about a $200 billion increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Weather will be the market’s concern next week as this report did not have a deviation significant enough to be a major market factor,” said the Hightower Report in a note following the WASDE’s release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
That trade has since unwound dramatically, leaving growth more than two standard deviations oversold relative to value, partly because of the recent blowup of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Our measurement, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters, shows a tension of four standard deviations from the expectations of the Standard Model.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
The scientists suggested several theories for why these two humpbacks embarked on such "exceptional" deviations from the normal routes.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
By monitoring you 24/7, these wearables can spot what Whoop Chief Executive Will Ahmed calls the “slight deviations that matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
In recent years the even smaller deviations of the orbits of the other planets from the Newtonian predictions have been measured by radar and found to agree with the predictions of general relativity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing deviation
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