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For two players raised and taught by the same tennis-instructor parents, the brothers Zverev play tennis about as divergently as you could imagine.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Capsule obcordately 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves divergently 2-lobed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The intervening space, at an inclination of thirty odd degrees, was a field of seats, cut into three equal parts by two aisles that ran from the entrance, divergently upward.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

A faint shout came to Bensington's ears, and then he perceived the remaining two rats bolting divergently, and Cossar in pursuit towards the holes.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I dive and make a great fuss of attacking, then I steer divergently.

From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir