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Discover LudwigThe word 'deflecting' is correct and usable in written English
It is an intransitive verb, meaning to move away, and it can be used to refer to deflecting attacks, deflecting blame, deflecting questions, or any other action of turning something away. Example sentence: The politician was adept at deflecting tough questions.
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Lundqvist made a late third-period save with the top of his helmet, deflecting the puck into the crowd, and then robbed Marcus Foligno with 1 20 remaining.
Bernardo Silva proved pesky down Monaco's right flank for a while, combining slickly with Jeremy Toulalan and Moutinho to reach the byline as Chiellini stumbled, with Barzagli instinctively deflecting the pull-back behind.
He good naturedly indulges me as I explore the idea of him transcending certain stereotypes, but ultimately, there's a flickering, deflecting mask – of clothing, behaviour, gesture and language – that he must stay behind.
When adorned with bull or 'roo bars, useful for deflecting wildlife in remoter parts of Africa or Australia, an SUV becomes a particularly lethal urban attack weapon should it encounter a pedestrian or smaller vehicle.
That lets it trumpet its achievements while deflecting blame for its shortcomings (such as its failure to honour a pledge to cut school class sizes), and still, just, to portray itself as an insurgent party rather than a dowdy incumbent.
"The brain design of the movie agents focuses on how they will react to particular stimuli and situations, such as deflecting an incoming battle axe, and finding an enemy," says Ms Holland.The result is Massive Insight, a software package that makes it possible to create agents and program their behaviour preferences using simple graphical tools.
That is meant to buy an ally in a tricky region, not instability.Government critics see the treason charge, which will be difficult for it to drop without losing face, as a way of deflecting attention from the region's troubles, by pinning the blame on concocted foreign conspiracies.
IMAGINE that some huge rocky projectile, big enough to destroy most forms of life, was hurtling towards the earth, and it seemed that deep international co-operation offered the only hope of deflecting the lethal object.
Rebuilding flattened villages might prove much easier than deflecting debate over heavenly responses to earthly events.
If it is not, finding the weapons and the chemicals they are made from would be impossible.Co-operation could conceivably have benefits for the Syrian regime beyond just deflecting air strikes.
And if doing so succeeds in deflecting companies from thinking hard about their costs, actual social harm results.
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