Example Sentences

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Beneath the surface, however, leadership within the fund is diverging.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

With “R.U.N,” Cirque is diverging from the core circus arts that made it famous in favor of a 40-person cast of stunt drivers, martial arts experts, pyrotechnic performers and freak-show artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2019

Time tracked by atomic clocks is diverging from time as determined by that most basic of timepieces: the rotating Earth.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

They’ve been told that everyone grows up a certain way, and now their own way is diverging from that.

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2014

Since your line is now longer than his, and you have more rifles in action your fire is converging while that of your enemy is diverging.

From The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training by Ellis, Olin Oglesby