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The record pace at which the S&P 500’s price has diverged from breadth in 2026 makes him “cautious” from a technical perspective, even if it’s not a “sell everything” signal, he added.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

But I came to admire him more with age, even as our critical temperaments only further diverged.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

In a contentious meeting on Wednesday, the last of Chair Jerome Powell’s eight-year tenure, Fed policymakers broadly agreed to hold interest rates steady, but diverged on how to explain the likely path ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Vance's rhetoric has also sometimes diverged from Trump's, as happened this week when Vance called the temporary ceasefire a "fragile truce".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

What makes the Maori-Moriori collision grimly illuminating is that both groups had diverged from a common origin less than a millennium earlier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond