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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And three lives that had diverged since their days in the scouts came colliding back together.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
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
That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
