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The group, Comice, wants to build a series of pump stations and treatment plants to divert water from further east, to a purification plant south of the city.

They aren’t diverting the big bucks from one of those bowls to a second upstart anytime soon.

Ware expertly scatters red herrings, so that even the most alert reader becomes diverted into false deductions and dead ends.

Northbound traffic is diverting off the interstate at exit 247.

Postal leaders have mobilized extra resources, as mandated by multiple federal court orders, and diverted resources from non-election first-class mail processing to handle the influx of ballots.

Resources were promptly diverted to rescue those under attack, the committee found.

Producing one H-bomb would have diverted enough resources to produce 80 atomic warheads.

When they told flight attendants they had been to West Africa, alarm bells rang and the flight was diverted.

But as the battle raged near the edge of the runway all flights had to be diverted to other cities.

Every piece of garbage that is diverted from a landfill is a penny saved.

It took twenty Eskimos to hold it when allowed full play, and even these it jerked about in a manner that highly diverted them.

But in a moment a subject was started that entirely diverted his mind and upset the lively tenor of the breakfast-table.

Aristide went away chuckling, highly diverted by the success of his first effort.

Eloise was puzzled, but the sight of Mrs. Biggs tugging at her wet satchel to open it diverted her mind.

At last a happy inspiration came to him, and when Howard's attention was diverted another way he bent over her and began.