Both Uses
diversion
in
Legend, by Marie Lu
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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.
p. 249.2 *diversion = something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else
- Diversion.†
p. 269.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(diversion as in: a diversion to draw troops away) a distraction -- something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else
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(2)
(diversion as in: a favorite diversion is reading) something done for entertainment
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(3)
(diversion as in: diversion of flights) the act or instance of changing the direction of something or changing the use to which it is put; or a British term for detour (an alternate route due to a road closure)
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)