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detour

[dee-toor, dih-toor] / ˈdi tʊər, dɪˈtʊər /


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For all of this weekend's games, he takes on Tottenham fan Alfie Watts, co-host of the Race Across the World: The Detour visual podcast.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Pennebaker; and a marvelous TV series featuring schoolchildren that Godard made with Anne-Marie Mieville, his longtime partner and collaborator, titled “France Tour Detour Deux Enfants.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Sheridan excels as playing insecure young men — see also "The Mountain," "Detour," and "The Night Clerk" — but he is in danger of getting typecast.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2021

Detour signs sent us through miles of farmland and nondescript villages displaying vestiges of the former East Germany — large concrete block apartment buildings.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

On the 20th they arrived at the Grand Detour, or Great Bend, and two men were despatched with the only horse, to hunt, and wait the arrival of the boats beyond it.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various




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