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Critics say the prime minister has swerved from one policy misstep to another during his 22 months at the helm.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

This is why, for example, an officer may pull over a motorist whose car has swerved on the highway.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2025

Russia's willingness to pay means - so far - it has swerved its first default of any kind since a 1998 financial crisis, and its first on international market debt since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

In France, the government has swerved from lauding the AstraZeneca inoculation a few days ago to suspending it.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

Yet every foot of our way has been so guarded that not one of these swiftly-moving palaces has swerved from its track or been hindered on its course.

From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)