In a sentence
Six example sentences with deviation, each labelled with its topic.
Any deviation from the lab's fixed developing time by even thirty seconds showed up as grain in the shadows.
Photography
The bakery weighs every loaf, and a deviation of more than ten grams sends the batch back to the mixer.
Cooking
Housing starts ran within the usual band all spring, then showed a sharp deviation in July that no forecaster expected.
Economics
The conductor allowed no deviation from the printed tempo, and a soloist who lingered on a phrase heard about it at once.
Music
Any deviation from the sentencing guidelines must be explained in writing, and appeals courts read those explanations closely.
Law
The point guard's one deviation from the set play, a quick drive instead of the pass, won the game at the buzzer.
Basketball
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