Sample Sentences for
deviate
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deviate as in:  deviate from the course

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    The president decides not to deviate from his normal schedule, not wanting the news about Cuba to get out quite yet.  (source)
    deviate = change or differ
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    For or the rest of the week's Potions lessons Harry continued to follow the Half-Blood Prince's instructions wherever they deviated from Libatius Borage's, with the result that by their fourth lesson Slughorn was raving about Harrys abilities, saying that he had rarely taught anyone so talented.  (source)
    deviated = differed
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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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    Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation.  (source)
    deviation = 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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    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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    After today he'll never desire to deviate again.†  (source)
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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)
    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)
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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)
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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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    Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something.  (source)
    deviated = changed or differed
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