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  • adverb In a divergent manner

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  • They also hope other schools and educators will adopt their goals of teaching children in fast-moving and complex America to think "divergently," or in multiple ways, and to view common objects (beyond Twinkies and backpacks, one presumes) in "'different, creative'" ways.

    American Thinker 2009

  • This will give students the opportunity to develop the ability to think creatively, critically, and divergently.

    Tony Zini: The Education Reform Paradox and the Extinction of Higher Level Thinking Skills Tony Zini 2011

  • Tested on their ability to think divergently – generating ideas by exploring many possible solutions, a key to innovation – 98% scored at genius level.

    The Future of the College Classroom | Impact Lab 2010

  • This will give students the opportunity to develop the ability to think creatively, critically, and divergently.

    Tony Zini: The Education Reform Paradox and the Extinction of Higher Level Thinking Skills Tony Zini 2011

  • English in India as is the case in a great many newly Anglophone regions from the Carribean to Cameroon *is* evolving divergently from the forms used in older historically Anglophone countries.

    World Affairs Article: Let Languages Die 2010

  • Two very special clergymen, one a rabbi, the other an African-American reverend are raised in divergently different countries yet experience similar levels of persecution and bigotry that will one day bring them together.

    The 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Tarie 2009

  • Two very special clergymen, one a rabbi, the other an African-American reverend are raised in divergently different countries yet experience similar levels of persecution and bigotry that will one day bring them together.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Tarie 2009

  • Not much fun for them down here at the Interface, competing with the bacteria who cruise by in their country of light, these cellular aristocracy, approaching the wall of hydrocarbons each for his share of God's abundance-leaving their wastes, a green murmur, a divergently unstable gabbling, a slime that grows with the days thicker, more poisonous.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Hence, at a little distance, the whole mass of foliage seems to consist of tufts, each containing a tassel of long pointed leaves, drooping divergently from a common centre.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

  • I dive and make a great fuss of attacking, then I steer divergently.

    The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne Stephen King-Hall 1929

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