deviate

Example Sentences

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Having at last discovered his role, pitting himself against tradition, against the very idea of beauty, Newman never deviated.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I do not deviate unless there’s extreme circumstances,” she says.

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“But because this is an exceptional case, they may deviate from prior practice and issue it this month.”

From MarketWatch

To evaluate a dog’s alterations, said Packer, consider how much it deviates from the original archetype: the wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal

The views of the San Francisco Fed president are significant because she has rarely deviated publicly from the position of Chair Jerome Powell.

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