diversion
Example Sentences
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That diversion is further proof that decoupling is real: Beijing is rerouting goods because the U.S. market has grown too expensive to serve directly.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
The result is a diversion, as clever and mean as Phoebe’s TV show.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
If you don’t want to paint, watching Ross whisk landscape masterpieces into being within 30 minutes, exercising a sorcerer’s assuredness, is diversion enough.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
After an assignment directing the city attorney’s prostitution diversion project, she spent 10 years leading the Neighborhood School Safety Program, which works with police and community groups to protect L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“You just drop one surreptitiously and it’ll run off and make a nice loud noise out of sight, giving you a diversion if you need one.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing diversion
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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