adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a diversionary tactic (= an action which draws attention away from something )
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Before the attack, nearby areas were bombed as a diversionary tactic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tactic
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Ills a diversionary tactic-she will do anything rather than finish her tale.
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For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The bombing was apparently a diversionary tactic, while the Navy landed its troops ashore.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Courses can be instrumental or diversionary but not contentious.
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For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.
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I do not propose to get involved in what is clearly a diversionary tack.
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It also yields a diversionary problem of continuing interest: what aesthetically pleasing patterns can be achieved?
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Sadly the Committee has been side tracked from that task by diversionary arguments about employed lawyers in criminal cases.
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The success of their final run depended on a diversionary air raid.