"deviate" is correct and usable in written English. It can be used as a verb meaning "to depart from a set course or accepted standard" or a noun meaning "a departure from the norm." Example sentence: The students deviated from the curriculum, introducing their own ideas into their presentations.
Deviations can be recognized as deviations only against this norm, and if they deviate too far they can't be recognized at all.[11] Thus, if who I am is defined through existing, this "who" is normally pre-defined by what is average, by the roles available to me in my culture, and so on.
Freud got his first job from Gordon Brown, and Ed Miliband has no plans to save the ILF or to significantly deviate from the coalition's cuts.
With a crisis boiling over in the eurozone again, he was right not to deviate from this road, difficult as it may be.
Columnists who support the political status quo are treated as thoughtful and nuanced; the tiny few that deviate are treated as predictable.
Hutchinson appealed against his whole-life sentence in 2008 but the high court and the court of appeal both found that, given the seriousness of his crimes, there was no reason to deviate from the whole-life term.
And they will certainly not be allowed to deviate from the calamitous austerity imposed upon them.
"A danger is if you see an easy opportunity and you deviate from your business plan or expand your routes too quickly," he says.
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