[ UK /da‍ɪvˈɜːd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /dɪˈvɝdʒ/ ]
VERB
  1. move or draw apart
    The two paths diverge here
  2. have no limits as a mathematical series
  3. be at variance with; be out of line with
  4. extend in a different direction
    The lines start to diverge here
    Their interests diverged
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How To Use diverge In A Sentence

  • He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.
  • As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago. Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
  • And how can those who profess to revere this charismatic figure, propound views so intolerantly divergent from those of their great leader?
  • However, they conclude that this is incorrect and that the prosauropods and sauropods diverged early from a common ancestor.
  • Arrangements in the upper line represent periods in which duplicated genes diverged.
  • The parallel lines appear to diverge.
  • In 1873 he gave a continuous function with divergent Fourier series at any point solving a major problem.
  • There'sa substantial divergence of opinion within the party.
  • The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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