diverge

Example Sentences

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In this single lake, more than 800 species have emerged from a shared ancestor in far less time than it took humans and chimpanzees to diverge.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

Where they diverge, and where the harder questions lie, is on inflation.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Women and men start off relatively equal when they enter the workforce, but within a few years, their earning paths diverge.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

Trump suggest that Kagan and Jackson increasingly diverge not merely in their tactical relationship to the court as an institution.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

In the course of the seventeenth century the Latin words experientia and experimentum and, with them, the English words ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton