The phrase "appear to diverge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing differences or discrepancies between ideas, opinions, or trends that seem to be moving apart.
Example: "The two theories appear to diverge significantly when it comes to their underlying assumptions."
Alternatives: "seem to differ" or "seem to separate".
Since then he has been further emboldened by success to follow his instincts, however far they appear to diverge from trade wisdom.
Starting in the late middle Campanian, the Kaiparowits record, along with those both to the north and south, appear to diverge in style and facies successions.
But the one point on which the views of Dalglish and his club's principal owner Henry appear to diverge is the latter's realism.
However, research based on several species of ascidians, a diverse and wide-spread class of tunicates, revealed that the molecular strategies underlying their development appear to diverge greatly from those found in vertebrates.
The policies she has released so far appear to diverge from staunch conservatism – she supports Labor's National Broadband Network over the Coalition's, is comfortable with same-sex marriage, urges compassion for refugees and wants the creaking train service fixed.
Because of the curvature of the lens surfaces, different rays of an incident light beam are refracted through different angles, so that an entire beam of parallel rays can be caused to converge on, or to appear to diverge from, a single point.
Ms. Rice's remarks appeared to diverge somewhat from those of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, on Thursday.
Where crowdfunding health care appears to diverge from theory is the negative externality inefficient priority setting may have towards achieving broader public health goals.
But when it came to tax cuts for incomes above $250,000, people's opinions appeared to diverge according to their political views.
The two groups, who fought together to push out the Malian army last month, have appeared to diverge in their ideas for how to govern the seized territory.
