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diversion as in: a diversion to draw troops away
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The attack on the capital was a diversion to draw troops away from the port city.
diversion = distraction (from something more important)
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The shoplifter had an accomplice who created a diversion.diversion = distraction
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And I'd bet my broomstick he let that troll in, to make a diversion! (source)
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"We just need a diversion," Tally said. (source)
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WHAT KIND OF DIVERSION? (source)DIVERSION = distraction (something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else)
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Perhaps the diversions were no accident.† (source)diversions = things that draw someone's attention so they don't notice other things
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Sophie was exhausted, but when she crawled out of the den into the garden a little later she thought Alberto would have been well pleased with her diversionary maneuvers.† (source)diversionary = something intended to draw someone's attention so they don't notice something else
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I'll create a diversion. (source)diversion = distraction
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Merry-go-rounds, Red Hots, root beer, shooting galleries, beauty contests, public bathing: in a word, vulgar diversions.† (source)diversions = things that draw someone's attention so they don't notice other things
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We believe the attack on the gas pipeline is a diversionary tactic.† (source)diversionary = something intended to draw someone's attention so they don't notice something else
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Even my test mission to track Day must've been a diversion to distract me while they tossed out any remaining evidence. (source)diversion = something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else
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Both of the films were popular with the public, both found favor with the Politburo (which was eager to give the People some respite from the war years through suitably themed diversions), and our young starlet reaped the effortless rewards of fame.† (source)diversions = things that draw someone's attention so they don't notice other things
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Diversionary landings on nearby islands occurred in October, as distant Marine units hurried to the area, completing the encirclement strategy.† (source)Diversionary = something intended to draw someone's attention so they don't notice something else
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We create some big diversion to clear the ballroom— (source)diversion = something that draws attention so something else won't be noticed
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diversion as in: a favorite diversion is reading
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When I need a break, I find detective novels are a good diversion.
diversion = form of entertainment
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Playing Minecraft is my favorite diversion.diversion = entertainment
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Before we returned to Harvard, I convinced my parents to take a detour to Niagara Falls. The mood in the car was heavy, and at first I regretted having suggested the diversion, but the moment Dad saw the falls he was transformed, elated. (source)diversion = thing for entertainment
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He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions. (source)diversions = things done for fun
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Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker — a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either. (source)diversion = thing for entertainment
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That explained blitzball, that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained his insistence that I share all his diversions. (source)diversions = things done for fun
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She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain; and the longing betrayed itself in her reply. (source)diversion = form of entertainment
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Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio. (source)diversions = things done for fun
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And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. (source)diversion = something done for entertainment
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"Then," said he, "every man should have a diversion as well as a profession." (source)
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She closed her eyes an instant, and the vacuous routine of the life she had chosen stretched before her like a long white road without dip or turning: it was true she was to roll over it in a carriage instead of trudging it on foot, but sometimes the pedestrian enjoys the diversion of a short cut which is denied to those on wheels. (source)
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diversion as in: diversion of flights
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The snowstorm led to the diversion of 23 flights to another airport.
diversion = course changes
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The electronic signs assist with automated traffic diversion in event of an accident.diversion = changing routes
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Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent. (source)diversion = changing the water flow
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