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Synonyms for diverting
dɪˈvɜr tɪŋ, daɪ-di·vert·ing
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2347 | funny | |
#4214 | comic | |
#15644 | amusing | |
#36473 | comical | |
#42622 | diverting | |
#42698 | laughable | |
#87896 | deflecting | |
#172858 | risible | |
#199502 | mirthful |
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Chamber President Joerg Wuttke:
These worrying trends illustrate how excessive tightening of Internet controls can choke business growth and stifle investment in technology and research and development, it is therefore hugely dispiriting to see numerous member companies actively scaling back investment and expansion, and diverting their spending to other markets.
Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855):
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
What President Donald Trump is basically saying is we ought to use every drop of it, primarily for President Donald Trump agricultural friends in the Central Valley, if President Donald Trump argument in these tweets is' Stop diverting water to the Pacific and use it to fight the fires,' it's nonsensical.
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