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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swerve.

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Examples

  • If there is no need for me to know what the cyclist is doing then I can't say I care, but when a cyclists swerves from the bike lane across my lane and makes a left turn without signalling forcing me to break quickly, well thats not very nice.

    A Scintillating Rant About Small Flashing Lights « PubliCola 2010

  • I love how this swerves from the beginning to the end and yet the end is present in the beginning.

    Isn’t This a Lovely Paragraph? | clusterflock 2009

  • In its visual images, the Hutaree statement swerves from a Tibetan Buddhist protest in Nepal to the G20 to the FBI seige of a Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas in the

    Irregular Times jclifford 2010

  • SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: At the beginning of the tape, you can see a vehicle kind of swerves over and knocks her and then when she corrects --

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2006 2006

  • Stott made no remark to any one -- he was bowling to the groundsman -- but the ambition to bowl "swerves," [1] as they were afterwards called, took possession of him from that morning.

    The Wonder 1910

  • 7/24 WWE Smackdown Hits & Misses: Hardy vs. Jericho, Knox, Punk's Challenge, Punk vs. Mysterio HITS & MISSES - TNA IMPACT 7/23: Well, it wasn't Victory Road, Taz's mic skills, LAX dissension, "swerves" from a mile away

    PWTorch.com 2009

  • 7/24 WWE Smackdown Hits & Misses: Hardy vs. Jericho, Knox, Punk's Challenge, Punk vs. Mysterio HITS & MISSES - TNA IMPACT 7/23: Well, it wasn't Victory Road, Taz's mic skills, LAX dissension, "swerves" from a mile away EDITORIAL: A case for potential WWE wrestlers to be teamed with Chris Jericho - Swagger or Miz or ...

    PWTorch.com 2009

  • However, the story swerves from these points and dithers on for many a chapter before ending, once again, in a cliff hanger to be resolved in yet another book.

    “The Wheel of Time” Series by Robert Jordan (Tor, 1990) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Doc swerves to hit it and the thing bounces off the front of the bus.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • It swerves again, avoiding one man but hitting another.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

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