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deviate

[dee-vee-eyt, dee-vee-it] / ˈdi viˌeɪt, ˈdi vi ɪt /


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Despite heavy bleeding and a deviated septum, Davies continued playing.

From BBC

The country's security police chief, Margo Palloson, said it was "a Ukrainian drone that deviated from its course, which was possibly affected in Russian airspace."

From BBC

“If we expect inflation to deviate significantly and persistently from target, the response must be appropriately forceful or persistent,” she said in a speech.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, some of these tokenized offerings have significantly deviated in value from underlying shares and critics point out that they are technically derivatives that don’t convey the same shareholder rights as underlying securities.

From The Wall Street Journal

When it picked No. 3 seed Illinois to go all the way, it deviated from the pack and the other AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal