diverge
Example Sentences
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The messages from Stokes and McCullum appeared to diverge during England's 4-1 Ashes defeat in Australia.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
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
In conflicts of this nature, public rhetoric and private negotiation often diverge materially.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing diverge
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