Sample Sentences for
diverge
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    We had a lot in common when we were younger, but then our interests began to diverge.
    diverge = move apart or become different
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    ...my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.  (source)
    divergent = differing
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    the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside.  (source)
    diverging = moving apart
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    Each lived a distinct style, to divergent ends.†  (source)
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    I was surprised to find just how much we did have in common, aside from our names, and how much our narratives intersected before they fatefully diverged.  (source)
    diverged = became different
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    But he couldn't hide his own Divergence, and that killed him.  (source)
    Divergence = quality of being different
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    He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.  (source)
    diverging = becoming different
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    Any spot where multiple tracks merge or diverge, there's a little two-story shack standing there like a displaced lighthouse.†  (source)
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    All his letters show is an enormous confusion of contradictions and incongruities and divergences and exceptions to any rule he formulated about the things he observed.†  (source)
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    But people tend to freak out when something diverges from their expectations.†  (source)
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    This correspondence, as one might expect, reflected sharply divergent points of view: Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.†  (source)
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    Two rabbis diverged in a yellow wood.  (source)
    diverged = moved apart
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    There was no divergence of method,  (source)
    divergence = difference
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