alternate route
Example Sentences
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The concern is that the Red Sea alternate route for oil exports may also face disruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
On Saturday Transport Scotland posted on X on that Google Maps was falsely reporting the A9 as closed and was recommending an "inconvenient alternate route" when it remained open.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
Not so Maps, which, as we neared San José, began chiming in with a quite complicated alternate route, designed, I assumed, to avoid freeway traffic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.”
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
