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have deviated

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The effect on sentiment, the researchers find, comes not just from higher prices, but from how far and how often conditions have deviated from the relative stability that defined the prepandemic period.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

Some digital tokens tracking popular U.S. stocks have deviated wildly from underlying prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

Customs and Border Protection agents may have deviated from protocol before the fatal shooting.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

The Jehovah's Witnesses is a religious movement which believes that traditional Christian churches have deviated from the actual teachings of the Bible and that the destruction of the world is imminent.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2023

In reading this you should consider that, if I occasionally have deviated from common grammatical practice, I have done it to correct the vices, the style that slithers along the ground, of the earlier history.

From The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Levine, Robert