deflection

Then a quartet of Crimson players in diamond formation would rotate around him, ready to catch a deflection or take a lateral and speed into the end zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

You pine for an ugly deflection, a madcap own goal, one that ricochets in off McGinn's backside or the back of McBurnie's head.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Those observations are intended to help researchers evaluate the deflection of asteroids as a potential method to defend Earth against asteroid impacts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

We would expect the next commission’s debate to be carried out in public using the standard rhetorical tricks of today — namely lies, deflection and personal abuse.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Three years later a Croatian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovičić was studying graphs from an earthquake in Zagreb when he noticed a similar odd deflection, but at a shallower level.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson