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Example sentences for: divert

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China's spin: The findings were fabricated to divert attention from the embassy bombing.
Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French Indochina after the defeat of France.
"This consideration took precedence, apparently, over Clinton's unwillingness to be portrayed as trying to divert American public opinion from the impeachment process," Ben-Ishai wrote.
The pilots knew their mission was to divert aircraft, but did not know that the threat came from hijacked airliners.
Curators divert us from art with an array of related artifacts or documents from the period, as if too much aesthetic concentration might tax our attention span.