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Ms. Collinsworth provides few footnotes and no index, and at times veers close to the line between fiction and nonfiction.

As Kiera Butler and Anna Merlan at Mother Jones documented, Means veers “in a more New Age direction” in her “medical” writing.

As the company veered into new categories in recent years, sales of its core products suffered.

Flo veers off to the left, as if preparing to round the thicket rather than break her way through it again.

And so, with Penelope’s merry mood veering dangerously close to optoomuchism, the four young people marched to breakfast, singing all the way.