Vocabulary
Divergence
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the process or state of diverging.
Urdu meaning
پھیلاﺅ، تضاد، منتشر
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The points of divergence are obvious and visible.
- Recent social and political transformations in both India and Pakistan are cause for further divergence between state officials and between common citizens.
- This widening divergence between ordinary, disconnected Pakistanis and the wealth accumulation of the connected elite coincides with the use of public policy as a tool for extraction and redistribution from the bottom to the top.
- The timid pro-women stances of female leaders strengthen the grip of misogynistic power structures that prevent parity and divergence.
- This divergence was to surface after the Russian defeat when the US imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Islamabad on the nuclear issue and Pakistan became America`s most sanctioned friend.
Synonyms
separation, dividing, parting, forking, branching, fork, division, bifurcation,
Curator example
“the divergence between primates and other groups”
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