How to Use divergence in a Sentence

divergence

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• One way to address such a divergence is to grow your customer base.
  — Mike Shannon, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• The divergence from a comics-accurate design is also a bit of a let-down.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Nicholas is still mostly the same person at first, and then there’s a real divergence.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• Collins and Kent didn’t seem to mind their divergence with Trump, however.
  — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• The divergence between the two Dow indexes is raising a red flag on Wall Street.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• This is along the lines of Darwin’s principle of divergence.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• This divergence was even greater in the counties that gave each side its biggest margins.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 13 July 2021
• But there is a massive divergence on how well banks are doing.
  — Antoine Gara, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• These moves reflect the divergence between U.S. and international markets as investors around the globe take in America’s election results.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
• As a child of Virginia Beach, Va., raised on its lively housing-projects lifestyles juxtaposed with middle-class neighborhoods, Williams internalized the cultural divergence.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025