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deflect someone from something
collocation
to cause someone to change from or stop what they were intending to do:
His initial defeats did not deflect him from his ambitions.
She listens to him, but doesn't allow herself to be deflected from her purpose.
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deflect
The manager said that he wouldn't let criticism deflect him from what he intended to do at the club.
Nothing was going to deflect her from her plan.
Any number of events might deflect them from their course of action.
We will not be deflected from the path of peace.
Don't let other people's ideas about your career deflect you from your own ambitions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Goals and purposes
achievement orientation
affordance
ambition
avail
cause
dedicated
dream
eye
function
idly
intention
it's the thought that countsidiom
key performance indicator
KPI
subgoal
target
target setting
thought
towards
undedicated
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