deviation
Example Sentences
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This represents a 55% price-to-earnings-growth discount relative to its megacap technology peers and places the stock one standard deviation below its 10-year average, Nowak wrote.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
“But when you sum them all up together, it’s actually quite a substantial deviation from that standard.”
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Just as “The Complex” deviates from his first two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs” Mahajan’s career trajectory is also a deviation from that of a traditional novelist.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
It added that the providers’ actions and the treatments given were common and not a deviation from any applicable standard of care.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
That is just ordinary deviation from external reality.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing deviation
30 GRE Words Beginning with "D"
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"Tinker v. Des Moines": Excerpts from Justice Fortas's Opinion
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This Week In Words: August 31–September 6, 2019
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