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Definition

to move apart; or be or become different

diverge = move apart

divergent = different

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

diverged = moved in different directions

We had a lot in common when we were younger, but then our interests began to diverge.

diverge = move apart or become different

...my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.
Clifford Stoll

divergent = differing

the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

diverging = moving apart

divergence = difference

My mother said people feared the Divergent because we couldn't be controlled.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

divergent = people who are different

diverged = moved apart

Now this is where the stories offered by the boy and the State begin to diverge slightly.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

diverge = to move apart; or be or become different

...and my mother warned me about, the danger of being Divergent.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

divergent = different

The race divergence under the system of miseducation was fast getting wider.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

divergence = difference

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.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

diverged = became different

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.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

diverging = becoming different

But we must not let the recollections of this good fellow cause us to diverge from the principal history.
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
My travelling instructions directed me to go to Carlisle, and then to diverge by a branch railway which ran in the direction of the coast.
Collins, Wilkie -- The Woman in White
Roads diverge in every direction from the even and graceful bottoms of the valleys to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills.
Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Pioneers
At its highest point, the pass forked like a pair of tight pants into two diverging trails.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
When the workingpeople began leaving their houses, the daybreak boys diverged, Mars Bar to the East End, Maniac to wherever.
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee
Even though they've walked several steps down diverging paths, Barbara and Cedric talk regularly.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

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