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deflection
noun as in bend
noun as in curvature
noun as in departure
noun as in deviation
noun as in digression
noun as in divergence
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noun as in diversion
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noun as in irrelevancy
noun as in parenthesis
noun as in shift
noun as in slope
noun as in tack
noun as in turn
noun as in variation
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Example Sentences
I know it took a deflection but nice finish.
Instead, Maxwell served up a bunch of lies and deflections that he mostly accepted at face value.
Truth or deflection, it shines a light on the scale of the problems at Rangers.
His deflections when caught in a lie or a scandal have long worked to move past the immediate crisis, but maybe, just maybe, not this time.
What they got instead was inconclusive meeting that produced no agreement of any sort, followed by “an awkward press appearance” captured by the Washington Post with a textbook people-are-saying deflection:
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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