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

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

Veterans, or those who have been “in the trenches,” tend to have an intuitive sense of where the models diverge from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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