divert
verb (used with object)
to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
had been diverting
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past perfect progressiveof divert.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The board’s members adopted the order after the agency’s staff determined the company had been diverting far more water than it had rights to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Staff of the State Water Resources Control Board announced the order after determining the company had been diverting far more water than it had rights to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
Aetna, for instance, has sued DaVita in Pennsylvania state court, citing accusations that the dialysis firm had been diverting patients into commercial insurance plans to capture their larger reimbursements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
For the first time in the more than half a century that the federal government had been diverting Sierra Nevada water to farmers, there would be no deliveries to most Central Valley irrigation districts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2014
Miss Van had been diverting the company with a lively account of her day’s adventures.
From That Mother-in-Law of Mine by Anonymous
