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“The Best Years of Our Lives” centers on three G.I.s who meet on their circuitous way home to Boone City, the fictional Midwest metropolis that’s the movie’s setting.

Even with dispensation, a look at the map shows Putin may have to take a circuitous route.

But it was a long, circuitous road to get there.

They were the culmination of a typically circuitous series of reflections by the American president on the happenings in China over the past several days.

Tracking maps produced by local experts show swirling masses of Shahed drones, sometimes taking circuitous routes across Ukraine before homing in on their targets.