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1 - Over the last ten years, there has been a marked divergence in the salaries of executives and the salaries of ordinary workers.

2 - There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods.

3 - The sociology of cities has been studied by many scholars who have issued divergent and conflicting reports on the question of what effect living in cities has on people.

4 - The main consequence of these wars is the social unrest, and the increasing economic and social divergence between the groups of the community.

5 - Tests of divergent thinking are used to measure differences in creativity.