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deviate

adjective
  1. markedly different from an accepted norm
    aberrant
noun
  1. an archaic term for a person whose behavior is non-standard, especially in sexual behavior; see deviant
    “Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community were often labelled as deviates in previous decades.”
    degenerate
verb
  1. turn aside
    divert
  2. cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
    “The river was deviated to prevent flooding”
  3. be at variance with, especially in the field of statistics
    “The outliers deviated considerably from the mean.”
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