deviated

verb

past tense of deviate
as in turned
to change one's course or direction sailors forced to deviate from their course in order to avoid the storm

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Recent Examples of deviated The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this. — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026 And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition. — ABC News, 1 July 2026 She was also asked to perform the walk-and-turn exercise, and the one-leg stand exercise, and deviated from instruction on both counts. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026 Information posted online by Flightradar24, which has not been verified, suggests the plane had significantly deviated from its planned flight path. — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 In 2023, Middleton deviated from her usual pastels in an emerald green ensemble. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 13 June 2026 The square toe deviated from the quintessential round toe the Chanel cap-toe slingback is associated with, while the strap design played with cutouts and doubled around the ankle. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 June 2026 But so far, Raman, who has aligned herself with the DSA on issues such as renter protections but deviated on police spending, is struggling to unite the organization. — National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026 With 2025 training camp set to begin, Holmgren’s mind had deviated from the NBA. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviated
  1. turned
  2. swung
  3. veered
  4. diverged
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  • For two decades she's turned the science of human behavior into practical tools that help people communicate with confidence.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Cyber incidents have turned loss-of-control language into operational risk.
    — Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of turned
Verb
  • Out in the clean air, this pointer swung away from the compass to aim at the plume’s edge, several seconds before the fly physically turned to head back.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026
  • It’s swung as low as $72 early this month and as high as $102 last week on uncertainty about whether the United States and Iran could reach a deal to allow oil tankers to move freely again from the Middle East to customers worldwide.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Definition of swung
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  • While taxiing on the water, the seaplane reportedly veered left and failed to respond to corrective efforts before striking a dock and sinking in approximately 100 feet of water.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The Fast and Furious veered off the road with its last two efforts.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
Definition of veered
Verb
  • Markets and consumers have diverged in their opinions and outlooks over the past five years.
    — Derek Horstmeyer, Fortune, 31 July 2026
  • In the bond market, short-term and long-term yields diverged.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 29 July 2026
Definition of diverged

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