Similar words: divert, diverse, inadvertent, diversity, inadvertently, biodiversity, aborted, dived. Meaning: [daɪ'vɜːt] adj. pleasantly occupied.
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(61) Then an acquaintance started talking to me and diverted my attention.
(62) The tower is fully let, leading to speculation that funds were diverted to deal with its liquidity crunch.
(63) Observers have pointed out that the Gabcikovo power plant could only be economically viable if a substantial amount of water is diverted.
(64) But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale.
(65) Plainly he is a fellow not readily diverted from the job in hand.
(66) Sport for example diverted the energy of the masses into activities that could inculcate both useful and attractive qualities.
(67) Instead of being directly involved, radical supporters were diverted into the groups where their thoughts could be sifted and selected at will.
(68) Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered.
(69) Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog.
(70) In the end they used a locomotive which diverted the steam into tanks behind the engine by means of a ducted exhaust.
(71) Airports ran out of fuel, and domestic flights were diverted.
(72) Threatened people do not perform well - their energies tend to be diverted from the primary task.
(73) In recent years, Wilson and the Legislature also have diverted some transportation funds to the deficit-ridden state general fund.
(74) It is diverted hundreds of miles along aqueducts to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson.
(75) His own attention was increasingly diverted to the more immediate problems of holding down prices and wages.
(76) The second is part of the river Indus, which was diverted after a violent earthquake in 1819.
(77) Unless there was some incident that diverted and concentrated the general attention, but I noticed nothing.
(78) In all, $ 2.2 million in federal funds was illegally diverted by those convicted, prosecutors said.
(79) As a result,(www.Sentencedict.com) their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement.
(80) All that money diverted from the city treasury predictably left Neza near bankruptcy.
(81) This is balance of trade improving for those countries that supply other member countries with diverted imports.
(82) The town itself, not very large, has been preserved in the centre and the traffic diverted round the outside.
(83) At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling.
(84) Ponds with gently flowing water and artificial waterfalls might be constructed or existing streams diverted to help the accumulation of ch'i.
(85) What had begun as a bolt of recognition and longing had been diverted into strain.
(86) The adjacent roads were then diverted into the new town.
(87) Cars from London terminated at Thornton Heath Pond and all other traffic was diverted.
(88) The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach.
(89) Computer and other technical problems diverted commander attention from the battlefield.
(90) That extra money would then be diverted into personal retirement accounts.
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