diverge
verb (used without object)
to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
had diverged
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past perfectof diverge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She said their paths had diverged “for some time.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
“Our paths had diverged a little bit, which was cool.”
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2023
Regardless, the shaft of the femur is tantalizing and important because it dates to a time when our earliest ancestors looked a lot like African apes but had diverged from the lineage leading to chimps.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
But the two Alpha sequences had diverged more significantly from human lineages.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
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
