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Examples of veer in a Sentence
Ben Croll, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
This approach also helps veer away from a restrictive mindset.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
That's when her 2000 Subaru veered into the turning lane, hitting another car that was sitting in the turning lane and facing south, waiting to turn left into a private drive, the report states.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
But within minutes, according to satellite data that tracks vessel traffic, the 984-foot (300-meter) Dali began to drift out of its lane and veered more sharply before slamming into one of the main pillars of the bridge, which is a critical conduit for Baltimore truckers and commuters.
—Joshua Goodman and Richard Lardner, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
The Democrat-turned-independent was never shy about veering from the party line.
—Susan Haigh, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
Six weeks later, the UK veered the other way, voting to leave the European Union.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
The madcap champion of motormouth comedies seemingly veers weirdly off-course in dramatizing the career of the mid-nineteenth-century dentist named William Morton (played by the gruffly folksy Joel McCrea), who, despite opposition from doctors, pioneered the use of ether as an anesthetic.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
Continue reading … ‘POLITICAL OPERATIVE’ – George Stephanopoulos veers ABC News to the left, critics say.
—Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
Each spoonful veers from sour to sweet and then spicy for a particular amalgamation of flavors that’s both familiar and intoxicating.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Many veer between bland mimeography and slavish hagiography.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
The third act leaves the bar and veers into more traditional action-movie territory, trading down-to-earth punches for cartoonish boat chases and explosions.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
But the Supreme Court must now decide whether those efforts go too far — when the government, in other words, veers into censorship on social media that violates the First Amendment.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
As Jen takes up a physically grueling passion of her own — aerial acrobatics — Jones and cinematographer Andrew White present graceful re-stagings of moments from her career, which make deft use of shadow and spotlight, and veer into rousing territory.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
Eventually, Reesa’s story veers toward an uneasy conclusion.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Signed to Swag Records and distributed by Glad Empire, La Mau sometimes is reminiscent of Karol G in sound and charm, but veers more romantic.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
Think of post-punk scrubbed of all darkness, maybe even art: Trademark echoes were offset by a melodicism that veered on loungey, thrift fashion as bubblegum.
—Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
On Monday, 28-year-old Minnesota cowboy J.D. Struxness was making his way on horseback across the stadium during a steer wrestling event when his horse tripped over a steer who veered too closely alongside them.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
She was fatally struck by a drunken driver who had veered into a safety lane blocked by cones.
—Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
Due to its slim design and premium comfort, the Bose 700s are the exception to the rule of wanting to veer away from traditional headphone designs.
—John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Feb. 2023
Super Bowl snacks tend to veer salty — best washed down with a cold beer.
—Times Insider Staff, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
Hence the content of the courses tends to veer towards teaching practices that turn graduates into dutiful employees of big firms pursuing short term goals.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
To combat that, the Jones family decided to veer away from the conventional farming model.
—Quartz, 20 Jan. 2023
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Word History
Verb (1)
Middle English veren, probably altered from Anglo-French virer "to whirl, turn, revolve" (continental Old French, "to throw with a twisting motion"), going back to Vulgar Latin *vīrāre, reduced from Latin vibrāre "to wave, propel suddenly" — more at vibrate
Note: The vowel change (e in Middle English, i in French) is of unclear motivation. Cf. Old Scots wyr, wyre "to throw along a curving trajectory," vyre "to turn about a fixed point," apparently borrowed from Anglo-French virer with no alteration of vowel.
Noun
noun derivative of veer entry 1
Verb (2)
Middle English veren, borrowed from Middle Dutch *vieren or Middle Low German vīren, perhaps from a Frisian verbal derivative of Old Frisian fīr "far"; akin to Old English feorr far entry 1
Verb (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Noun
circa 1611, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Veer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veer. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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