divergent

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Is dramatically larger, less skilled and more divergent from the American majority than anything that was anticipated or desired.

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  1. adjective Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
  2. adjective Departing from convention.
  3. adjective Differing from another: a divergent opinion.

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  • But sometimes they seem for a moment divergent, and then you must at all costs choose the latter, and you will find that The topmost crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon that shining tableland To which God Himself is shield and sun And, if I am not mistaken, that land will be utterly full of an absolutely satisfying beauty But I feel that I scarcely yet understand anything about the meaning of Beauty. —  Letters to his Friends
  • Is dramatically larger, less skilled and more divergent from the American majority than anything that was anticipated or desired. —  VDARE.com - Latest Articles
  • I know she's a people person and likes to deal with differing and divergent issues, whether it be a family issue or a criminal issue or child support issues. —  Computer Crime Research News
  • But the crux of economics is that it can either be divergent or convergent with the planet's limited resources to sustain life. —  Dissident Voice
  • Conservation of divergent or convergent arrangement among these species appears to be quite rare. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. = Dutch divergent, from French divergent = Spanish Portuguese Italian divergente, from Middle Latin *divergen(t-)s, present participle of *divergere, diverge: see diverge.
 

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