divergently

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For two players raised and taught by the same tennis-instructor parents, the brothers Zverev play tennis about as divergently as you could imagine.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

The intervening space, at an inclination of thirty odd degrees, was a field of seats, cut into three equal parts by two aisles that ran from the entrance, divergently upward.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

Thereupon he leisurely consumed the property in dispute, shut his eyes, yawned, turned upon his back, thrust out his legs divergently, and died.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

Capsule obcordately 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves divergently 2-lobed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Hence, at a little distance, the whole mass of foliage seems to consist of tufts, each containing a tassel of long pointed leaves, drooping divergently from a common centre.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various