divert
verb (used with object)
to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
is diverting
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present progressiveof divert (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Others warn it is diverting capital from other parts of the economy, concentrating spending on data centers and technology infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Echoing a recent Op-Ed he wrote for Barron’s, Kruszewski worried that the dopamine rush of zero-date options and prediction-market sports bets is diverting young people from patient investing.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
What Blair has assembled, then, is diverting homage-schlock: a one-joke Halloween costume you’ll never wear again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
State Patrol is responding, along with Valley Regional Fire Authority and Puget Sound Fire, and is diverting traffic off the highway to the Auburn/Black Diamond Road.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
A false statement is not less false because it is plausible, nor an inconclusive experiment more satisfactory because it is diverting.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
