deflection
She uses her long arms to distract shooters and deflect passes.
Screens deflect fish away from the dams' turbines.
Most of the stream of high-energy radiation coming from the Sun is deflected by Earth's magnetic field.
Let your boss realize that nothing is going to deflect you from reaching your objectives.
The administration tried to deflect criticism of its environmental record by focusing on troubles in Congress.
They painted him as the victim of a malicious smear campaign, thus deflecting the spotlight from his lack of experience.
The abuser immediately responds to any discussion or confrontation of his actions by deflecting the focus onto the survivor's behaviour.
Being friends with someone who deflects onto you can damage your mental health and self-esteem.
Here are some signs your partner may be deflecting responsibility for what goes wrong in your relationship.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing direction
about-face
about-turn
bear
branch
branch off
break
decoy
divert someone/something to somewhere
do an about-face
do an about-turn
excursive
excursively
ping-pong
regear
reverse
slew
someone's back is turnedidiom
swerve
turn around
wheel

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Goals and purposes
Avoiding action
Blaming & accusing

Examples of deflected

deflected

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A laser beam is directed at the reflective, upper surface of the cantilever, and the deflected light detected by a four-quadrant photo-detector.
It has been shown that the electrons deflected during the interaction, could scatter on the walls of the experimental chamber, and fake a high-energy signal.
Indeed, not only are their envelopes similarly deflected from their progression, but they share the same spatial and spectral progression towards a specific horizontal point.
In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi.
Here the median and peak of the temperature distribution are deflected towards the largescale turbulence region.
Public attention to the unsustainability of this trend is deflected by the wartime rhetoric.
A few examples are transonic airfoils, supersonic air intakes, propelling nozzles at non-adapted configuration, and deflected control surfaces of vehicles at transonic or supersonic speed.
Clearly he could not be deflected into a detailed consideration of these, given his intended audience of theological students.
High velocity jets or streams frequently followed curved paths, deflected by deformations of the aortic wall.
Clearly, the current of interest in "the curious" in the nineteenth-century case history has been deflected into other channels rather than dammed up altogether.
Two springs return the whisker to its initial position when it is not deflected by contact with an external object.
The other boundary conditions follow from the assumptions that the pressure and particle displacements are continuous across the deflected interface.
To conserve mass, the interface must be deflected in the positive y-direction.
In a transversely inhomogeneous plasma the solitons are deflected and accelerated towards the low density side.
The sabot protects the cryogenic target during injection, and springs apart and is deflected from the capsule trajectory prior to its entering the target chamber.
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