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Police forces like Wiltshire have been diverting more resources into tackling rural crime, with more than a dozen arrests for hare coursing in the first two months of this year.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

As a result, vessels using the Red Sea have been diverting around southern Africa rather than using the Suez Canal between Europe and Asia, adding to costs and creating a potential global economic risk.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

Port Commissioner Cho said Monday that shipping companies have been diverting cargo since the contract expired to avoid having containers stuck at sea in the instance of a slowdown.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Many cargo owners have been diverting Asia-originated shipments to East and Gulf coast ports, via the Panama Canal in recent months to mitigate risk of labor disruption.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

There are women to whom all this warfare would have been diverting, but it was not so to Lee.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin