Modifies a noun

• thinking: In some cases they are young people whose divergent thinking has led them into disruptive behavior.

• viewpoint: And some websites are actually designed to accommodate divergent viewpoints.

• opinion: A leader is expected to provide a way of rallying the divergent opinions together.

• interpretation: Where they spent three days, we have spent three seasons, which perhaps accounts for our divergent interpretations.

• evolution: There are some things that millions of years of divergent evolution can't mask.

• view: Explore with the class the reasons why such divergent views of the same event may have arisen.

Modifying Another Word

• wildly: The top three animals mirrored the global result, which surprisingly didn't demonstrate a wildly divergent set of choices depending on different cultures.

• vastly: The vastly divergent views on the color white can lead to major flower issues.

• radically: We have to therefore accept that our understanding of the meaning of an ideogram evolved by a radically divergent culture may be deficient.

• widely: The Crane brothers ' writing styles are widely divergent.

• apparently: To what degree do you feel these apparently divergent criteria to be in conflict?

• increasingly: The thrust of the Welsh document means that Wales and England will have increasingly divergent systems in future.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The two are not mutually exclusive, but they do strike me as becoming increasingly divergent, and to regressive effect.