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Veering

noun

The act of turning aside suddenly. Synonyms: swerve, swerving.

Veer

verb

(past & past part. veered; pres. part. veering)

Turn sharply; change direction abruptly. Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend. "The motorbike veered to the right"

Shift to a clockwise direction.

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"Veering" Quotes from Famous Books

... be reminded that a paradox is not necessarily true. In fact, this particular paradox is seen to be sustained by a combination of slipshod reasoning and moral prejudice. The growing opinion of economic students is veering round to register in theory the firm empirical judgment from which the business world has never swerved, that a high rate of consumption is the surest guarantee of progressive trade. The surest support of the "economy of high wages" is the conviction ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... numbers, Jealousy, to nought were fixed: Sad proof of thy distressful state! Of differing themes the veering song was mixed; And now it courted Love, ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... stood beside the helm With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, ...

— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the English climate, sparkling one day with the dew-drop-on-the-grass-freshness of an early summer morning, to hang the next as passing heavy on the hand as the November fog upon the new hat brim; veering within twelve hours to the sharpness of the East wind, which braces skin and temper to cracking point, and to make up for it all, for one whole hour in the twenty-four, resembling the exquisite moment of the June morning, in which you find the first half-open rose ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... Durant, already veering toward scepticism, had been about to plunge into the depths of bottomless negation when the Colonel rose punctually at ...

— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair

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