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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of veer.

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Examples

  • While debating the issues, they at times veered from the facts.

    Bill Brady, Pat Quinn Spar During ABC7 Debate (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • He professed to have veered from the "old, foul road" down which language must drag itself, but is it not possible that what he was turning from was precisely his love of language, a luxury that his ascetic soul felt obliged to spurn?

    2009 May 06 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • A 5-year-old child was critically injured Wednesday evening when a car the child was in veered off Route 7 and crashed in Fairfax County, police said.

    Child, 5, critically injured in Fairfax crash Erica Johnston 2010

  • The conversation hardly veered from the economy and health care (the candidates unanimously hailed Attorney General Rob McKenna for joining a multi-state lawsuit to overturn the healthcare legislation signed into law March 23).

    Taking on Patty Murray: GOP Hopefuls Take Stage in Bellevue « PubliCola 2010

  • He professed to have veered from the "old, foul road" down which language must drag itself, but is it not possible that what he was turning from was precisely his love of language, a luxury that his ascetic soul felt obliged to spurn?

    Banville on Beckett: Non-Words or Word Storms? 2009

  • The only place where Palin veered to the right was in the teaching of creationism.

    Hear Them Growl 2010

  • The 45-year-old Pixar and Disney veteran died Tuesday when the car he was riding in veered off a highway in Mendocino County, California, and tumbled down a cliff into the ocean.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - ‘Toy Story’ Writer Dies When Car Tumbles Into The Ocean 2005

  • Cheney, whose 34-year-old daughter, Mary, is a lesbian, has veered from the Republican party line on gay marriage, saying he is opposed to a federal ban on the practice.

    09/16/2004 2004

  • Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney veered from the campaign trail to attend Game 2.

    NLCS notebook 2000

  • His expression veered again and I was surprised when he said, "So what else do you want to know?"

    Tell No One Coben, Harlan, 1962- 2001

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