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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

Dieckhaus rejected charges from some aid groups that the pier is diverting attention from what the U.S.,

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

That's not entirely the case; camp is diverting but cheap, whereas in work like "Feud" Murphy aims to be purposefully arch.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

The Melancholy of Jacques, in As you like it, is as singular and odd as it is diverting.

From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) by Monk, Samuel Holt