diverge from

diverge from (something)

To separate from something and travel in a different direction. Be careful to stay on the highway and not get onto one of the roads that diverge from it. The ranger warned us not to diverge from the paved trails. This section of your paper really diverges from your overall thesis, so I would just delete it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

diverge from something

to move in a different direction from something. Her line of thinking diverged from generally accepted thought on this point. The driveway diverges from the main road beyond the fence, straight ahead.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed eastbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the at Chapelhall Junction north roundabout generally eastwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway of the Newhouse Roundabout, a distance of 2.1km or thereby.
That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed westbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Chapelhall Junction south roundabout generally westwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway of the of the Eurocentral Junction south roundabout a distance of 1.35km or thereby.
That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed southbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Chapelhall Junction south roundabout generally southwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway of Bo'ness Road south roundabout a distance of 230 metres or thereby.
That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed northbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Chapelhall Junction north roundabout generally northwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway Bo'ness Road north roundabout a distance of 250 metres or thereby.
British Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday Britain's rules and regulations will diverge from those set by the European Union after Brexit because the government "will do things our own way".
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That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed eastbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Eurocentral Junction north roundabout generally eastwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway of the Chapelhall Junction north roundabout, a distance of 1.34km or thereby.
I'd certainly have written "differs from", for I happen to see "to differ from" in the same light as "to diverge from", not as "to contrast to".)
The key question which comes to mind here is to what extent the "new model" Church in Ottawa is the result of adaptations made necessary because of the shortage of priests, or how much of it reflects new theological/sociological ideas which diverge from the traditional and necessary theology of the priesthood and the sacraments, especially the Eucharist.
Bartolini's characteristic delicacy applies not only to the physical character of the material, but also to the suppleness of the action, deliberately nonideological and nonpolitical yet always tending to diverge from its own norm or violate its internal logic.
Such long shadowing times are striking when compared to the great rate at which orbits diverge from each other, Yorke says.
That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed eastbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Chapelhall Junction north roundabout generally eastwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway of the Newhouse Roundabout, a distance of 2.1km or thereby.
That length of the M8/A8 Edinburgh - Greenock Trunk Road, being the newly constructed northbound carriageway from its diverge from the circulatory carriageway of the Bo'ness Road south roundabout generally northwards to where it meets the circulatory carriageway Chapelhall Junction south roundabout a distance of 230 metres or thereby.
Despite these misfires, what Newkirk aspires to is challenging and worthwhile, and if he can trust the referential possibilities (and limits) of his materials, exploring how personal concerns intersect with, and diverge from, sites of societal conflict, he may pr oduce something intellectually and visually unsettling.
The ways in which they diverge from replicating Goya, if not the point of the work, is certainly of interest.