divert
verb (used with object)
to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
had diverted
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past perfectof divert.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Investigators said in the 495-page report that they still did not know why the plane vanished and refused to rule out that someone other than the pilots had diverted the jet.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Newsom also complained that the deployment had diverted the California National Guard from critical duties such as combating wildfires and interrupting the drug trade at the U.S.-Mexico border and across California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
It said it had diverted money away from planned maintenance and repairs to secure "a stop gap water supply".
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
Teams had diverted the flow of a nearby river to look for bodies, said Gurudutt Ghimire, another official who is part of search operations.
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2023
He rigged up a sawmill powered by the water he had diverted.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
