"it deviates" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that something strays from the expected or usual course or direction. Example: The project was going smoothly, but suddenly it deviated from our original plan and caused delays.
It deviates from its source material in generally modest and unobtrusive ways; for instance, by reorganizing the book's fragmented, parallel story lines into a linear whole.
However, where it deviates is in its history-free nature.
For instance, the mirror used in the telescope is so smooth that, across its 9.5-inch width, it deviates from perfect smoothness by only a few widths of an atom.
RNA editing alters the nucleotide sequence of an RNA molecule so that it deviates from the sequence of its DNA template and provides a novel post-transcriptional regulatory system in organelles (Tillich et al. 2006).
A word's uniqueness point is the place in its sequence of phonemes at which it deviates from all other words in the language; hence, it makes the word 'unique'unique
A pit bull is dangerous to people, then, not to the extent that it expresses its essential pit bullness but to the extent that it deviates from it.
One is that it deviates from the usual Justice Department tradition under which its lawyers defend even laws that the sitting president and his party oppose.
When it deviates too far into geek-speak, focus on the words in capital letters.
What if it is bad only if it deviates from society's expectations?
But every time you think you've sorted the show into tidy parallel lines, it deviates onto another quivering tangent.
Greece has been told it must legislate by 15 July to introduce "quasi-automatic spending cuts" if it deviates from primary surplus targets.
