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How to use the word divergent in a Sentence?

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Just a 20-minute walk in nature can help significantly relax people, and we found it can help people produce significantly more ideas — it’s called divergent thinking.

Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The test measures divergent thinking and verbal creativity, which are important but limited aspects of overall creativity. Our task won't predict your creative culinary skills, but it will predict performance on various types of problem-solving, which suggests it is doing more than simply measuring vocabulary, still, we'll need future research to assess how our task relates to other verbal abilities or intelligence more broadly.

Jay Olson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Multispeed recoveries are under way in all regions and across income groups, linked to stark differences in the pace of vaccine rollout, the extent of economic policy support, and structural factors such as reliance on tourism, the divergent recovery paths are likely to create significantly wider gaps in living standards between developing countries and others.

Gita Gopinath

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment.

Spiro Agnew

added by Normando
3 years ago

Given the similarity in competition issues involved, divvying up these investigations is sure to waste resources, split valuable expertise across the agencies, and likely result in divergent antitrust enforcement.

Mike Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This interaction between the( MasterCard) settlement and the( Amex) settlement agreement illustrates why Friedman's apparent collaboration with Keila Ravelo is so troubling, friedman's ability to be a zealous advocate for the class was compromised by his collaboration with counsel for MasterCard, an entity with interests divergent to those of the class ; there is reason to be concerned that he was not acting solely in the class's interests when he, teamed with Keila Ravelo, engaged in settlement negotiations and decision-making.

Judge Garaufis '

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Listen, because America has essentially a two-party system, each of the parties represents a pretty wide divergent set of views, you've got a member here and a member there who are off the reservation. No big deal.

Representatives John Boehner on Wednesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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    brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause
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