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divergent

[dih-vur-juhnt, dahy-] / dɪˈvɜr dʒənt, daɪ- /


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Policymakers have gotten “divergent signals” about the job market’s health that, taken together, suggest it is bending but not breaking, Paulson said, adding that she is waiting for clarity from additional data.

From The Wall Street Journal

He suggests that the magazine’s poems have “represented the country’s wildly divergent visions of a good life—and railed against thwarted hopes for it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the central banks’ increasingly divergent strategies are set to reshape the global economic outlook.

From Barron's

The current investment picture for Gen X looks the most divergent one among the demographic groups.

From MarketWatch