The price the task group was paying was too high for a mere diversion from a base it couldn't save, and both of them knew it.

This is mere diversion and doesn't contribute to that end at all.

His big-game adventures had been a mere diversion.

In this novel, though, the side trips seem more than mere diversions.

"Trying to kidnap me, perhaps kill me, a mere diversion for stealing my life's work?"

Until I began to perceive that within these bloody barbarian games there were real forces at work, and greater gains to be had than mere diversion.

Likely he intends somewhere else, and the story is a mere diversion," Landry said, "but there's no reason in taking it lightly.

Beyond Satisfaction In light of this and other research, joking at work is being appreciated as more than mere diversion.

These musical moments, artfully staged by John Carrafa, never exist as mere diversions.