How to Use divergence in a Sentence

divergence

noun
Definition of divergencenext
Synonyms for divergencenext
  • The lower the score, the worse the divergence in values.
    — Walter J. O’Donnell, STAT, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The main tell of your divergence was what band was named on your shirt.
    — Christopher Chang, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • When added up over the decades, the divergences are sometimes stark.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Sometimes the small divergences are what add spice to the design.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The 2020 matchup marked a divergence point in the momentum of the two programs.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The divergence in the two sides’ descriptions is a vivid sign that the EU and China are not on the same page.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 24 June 2020
  • Most damaging of all was the divergence between the cost of tickets and the success of the team.
    — Rory Smith Ben Quinton, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • What is missing in the approach and why is there such a divergence?
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • What might once have been a point of deep divergence is now an area of overlap.
    — Emily Tamkin, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • As the ratio was forming its low at the end of the year, the MACDs formed sharply higher lows and a strong bullish divergence.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • The wildest divergence in these indices over the last four decades came around 2012, when WTI dropped sharply away from Brent.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 15 July 2022
  • The divergence is partly down to the stock performance of the companies in which the pair own shares.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The divergence in opinion was not limited to the Iraq war.
    — Naima Green-Riley, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The divergence doesn’t mean one chain paid better than the other.
    — Theo Francis, WSJ, 10 July 2021
  • While there were small points of divergence, the vast bulk of their memories matched.
    — Jes Aznar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The divergence in the performance of the major U.S. stock indexes this year is the widest in more than a decade.
    — Karen Langley, WSJ, 23 June 2020
  • The divergence also reflects the role of tech stocks as a haven during the rout -- the Dow fell faster and now is rising faster.
    — Sarah Ponczek, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Their research traced the current growth in the black-white earnings gap to a divergence in full-time wages that took off in 2000.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
  • Beyond the First World, the divergence is even starker.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • One way to address such a divergence is to grow your customer base.
    — Mike Shannon, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • The divergence in the way the two men have chosen to handle racial flare-ups was perhaps inevitable.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • That choice, to count food stamps as equivalent to cash, is by far the biggest point of divergence.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • The reasons for the divergence of public opinion and court actions aren’t hard to find.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • The true divergence from events-apps past is, obviously, the branding, as is the case with many things.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The new species is partly Denisovan, likely born from two of the three species' divergences.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2019
  • This wide divergence of views can be seen in the pricing of Tesla options.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Mar. 2021
  • At the heart of the difference is a divergence in how the two sides gauge the outcome of an intervention.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 9 July 2020
  • This divergence could lead to a shift through the adoption of microgrids.
    — Tracy Price, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Recent months have shown a growing divergence between the high and low ends of the U.S. market.
    — Prashant Gopal, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • This divergence can cause the emerging light to be out of phase, resulting in a lower contrast image.
    — Matt Morris, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025

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