deviate
verb (used without object)
to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
am deviating
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present progressiveof deviate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But I am deviating and bearing rather too near upon the unpardonable.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady
But I perceive that I am deviating into an address to the Italian reader, where my business is with the English one; and be they few or many, I must take my leave of both.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
But I am deviating, and I perceive that you are wishing to make some further inquiry.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady
