See divert in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The news release about the new funding was an attempt to divert attention from the government's problems."
},
{
"text": "Money and resources were diverted from education into the war effort."
},
{
"text": "The farmers were diverting water from the river."
},
{
"text": "The Toronto-bound flight diverted to New York."
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"If you divert something, you change its path or flow so that it avoids a place it would have gone."
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"If you try to divert someone, you try to amuse them."
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