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deviate
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deviate as in:  deviate from the course

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    He barely looked at the road, yet the tires never deviated so much as a centimeter from the center of the lane.  (source)
    deviated = swerved (changed or differed)
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    English seemed a random deviation from their natural tongue …. and the Illuminati did nothing randomly.  (source)
    deviation = change or difference
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    As if Frederick understands already that both have been assigned to their specific courses, that there is no deviating now.  (source)
    deviating = changing or differing
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    The plans are to be followed exactly, without deviation.  (source)
    deviation = change or difference
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I also told him where the deviations would occur.†  (source)
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    Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something.  (source)
    deviated = changed or differed
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    The roadbuilders didn't deviate an inch from the plan the headman was following.  (source)
    deviate = change
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    When he stepped out of the hospital door the grounds overwhelmed him: the cropped shrubbery, the edged lawns, the undeviating walks.†  (source)
    undeviating = not changing or differing
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeviating means not and reverses the meaning of deviating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I couldn't shake my sense that his attention menaced Ty, the guiltless cultivator, concentrating innocently on never deviating from the rows laid out before him.†  (source)
    deviating = changing or differing
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    He never deviates or lets himself be swayed by the voices outside the door, begging him to open up before a disaster occurs.†  (source)
    deviates = changes or differs
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    Although it experienced no loss of altitude or airspeed, the 747 began to veer off its assigned flight path, now traveling west-southwest at a seven-degree deviation from Jet Route 146.  (source)
    deviation = change or difference
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    Aside from the Cap'n Crunch whistle hidden in the kitchen, I found no surprises or deviations from the original game.†  (source)
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    For Adams, who had argued emphatically at Paris for full repayment of American debt and had never deviated from that view, American reluctance, or inability, to make good on its obligations was a disgrace and politically a great mistake.  (source)
    deviated = differed or changed
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