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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deviate .
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Examples
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People were so upset about the Twilight movie when it deviated from the book.
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No but seriously, Matt should print out the article and frame it and put it on the wall so when that fascist Jennifer Palmeri comes storming into the blog center with her jackboot thugs b/c Matt has deviated from the ideological line of the day, he can point to it and tell her to back off, man!
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At times certain Euro cultures deviated from the standard (the French during the 1600's are no exception) but - on the whole, the party line trotted out is so far from the truth; And, if nobody bathed, why did the victorians turn out such beautiful marble washtstands basins and pitchers for this purpose?
Modest Active Wear 2009
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I always thought the alien in The Thing was great, because at its heart, it deviated from the 'actors with bumps on their forehead' sort of approach you get in movies so much.
March 2010 2010
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Why has NAD deviated from the courts in treating falsity/puffery?
Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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PSD simply breed mistrust, are divisive, and talk to officers as though they are living saints and that the system works, and they never did anything that in any way deviated from the barmy ideas we now work under.
Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Right away, I could see that the problem was almost perfect, because the students started discussing the issues right away and never deviated from the task — which is highly unusual in my classes, which seem to attract the group-work skeptics.
2009 October 07 « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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Right away, I could see that the problem was almost perfect, because the students started discussing the issues right away and never deviated from the task — which is highly unusual in my classes, which seem to attract the group-work skeptics.
Anatomy of a successful class « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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Right away, I could see that the problem was almost perfect, because the students started discussing the issues right away and never deviated from the task — which is highly unusual in my classes, which seem to attract the group-work skeptics.
2009 October « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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I always thought the alien in The Thing was great, because at its heart, it deviated from the 'actors with bumps on their forehead' sort of approach you get in movies so much.
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