deviate
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Over longer horizons, though, leveraged ETFs can deviate sharply from the assets they track—often resulting in titanic gains or devastating losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
This doesn’t deviate from what Smith has said before about her health struggles.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Department of Justice sued RealPage, a Texas-based software company, alleging it gathered private data from landlords to set rent prices and make it difficult for property managers to deviate from these price recommendations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He has faced calls from opposition parties to set out his plans, confirm who he intends to appoint to his cabinet and explain whether or not he will deviate from Labour's 2024 manifesto.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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“They really, really, really hate anyone that deviates from the norm,” he said in a 2021 podcast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Periods where inflation deviates more from target than unemployment are associated with tightening monetary policy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
In doing so, the measurement deviates from lived experience, especially for cash-strapped Americans who are most exposed by these price changes.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
Just as “The Complex” deviates from his first two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs” Mahajan’s career trajectory is also a deviation from that of a traditional novelist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
She rarely deviates from her original pattern, her hymn of particulars.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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As if to signal this iteration hasn’t completely deviated from its roots, in the show’s opening moments, Deborah Wayne coolly flicks the iconic flip-up frames made famous by Hardison’s Dwayne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
They often must provide evidence that the government willfully violated a policy or otherwise deviated from its charge — that is, did something irregular — to overcome the standard.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
This week's exchange of strikes was sparked after Iran was accused of targeting three vessels it said had deviated from its approved route.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
While flying solo, Liu deviated from his designated airspace and dropped out of contact with the airport before crashing into Citic Tower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
PIH’s core mission has never deviated from what it was when Jim, Paul, and Ophelia first met to discuss how to change the world’s approach to health care.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Punjab police said there was "absolutely no justification for deviating from our established protocols" and that it was conducting a "thorough and impartial investigation".
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
But the new practitioners of the FDE strategy are deviating fundamentally from Palantir’s original design in a way that makes them unlikely to achieve the same success, people familiar with Palantir’s FDE approach say.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026
Recently it has joined the AI rush, deviating from its bread and butter of conventional infrastructure and blue-chip stocks, pumping money into several large AI data center funds, including one with asset manager Brookfield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
He believes the asset manager erred in deviating from the contractual terms of the fund agreements.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
It is not a system that allows for deviating.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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