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Meanwhile, the administration has announced other initiatives to reopen old immigration cases for re-vetting, which will divert more immigration officers away from reviewing new applications.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

With their typical route unavailable, drivers will divert toward other roadways, creating congestion that radiates outward from the blocked roadway.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2024

Other experts worry that paying for expensive weight-loss medications will divert funding away from coverage for other medical treatments.

From Scientific American • Oct. 16, 2023

The valve will divert floodwaters into the California Aqueduct for use in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

They will divert our attention from the important affairs of State to their own mean antipathies, and passions, and prejudices.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore