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deviation

[dee-vee-ay-shuhn] / ˌdi viˈeɪ ʃən /


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Li fled to Mexico and then China to avoid arrest, and Xuan and Zhang are accused of helping her, according to a criminal complaint and the prosecutors’ bail deviation motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out data points are around the average.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It also suggested the home's outer walls had an "inward lean" with a deviation of up to 50mm.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Economists estimate each standard deviation of achievement is worth $110,000 to $230,000 in lifetime earnings, so $10 billion buys roughly three years of that gain for two million children, about a $200 billion increase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

He had to be in crisis, his deviations in footwork and arm motion analyzed like tanker traffic around the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Relativity seems pretty solid. We haven’t seen any deviations from that,” said Katie Mack, Hawking chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The standard deviations swell to 17% for sales and marketing costs, 25% for general and administrative expenses, and 36% for depreciation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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