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Example sentences for: deflected

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Lanny Davis, the closest thing to an official source who is talking, deflected the idea of an apology when quizzed about it.
Cornell's boxes are like reliquaries infused with deflected eroticism and the magic of hopeless wishes.
"The shouting about Patrick Buchanan's defense of American isolationism in World War II," Zelikow writes, "has deflected attention from the real task: Defeat the ideas, not the man."
A small skin incision was made in the knee and the patella deflected.
By focusing attention on tone, it has deflected attention from content.