circuitous
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In that case, exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood say they can’t trace back the cost basis because of the holding’s circuitous route.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
People travelling between Al-Eizariya and Jerusalem would have to take a circuitous route three times longer than the present journey, he said.
From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025
A thickly bearded 25-year-old right-hander originally from Bloomington, Ind., Klein’s path to Monday’s extra-inning marathon could hardly have been more circuitous.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
She endured the stares of the middle-class teacher’s pets who looked down on her for the circuitous route that got her there.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Vocabulary lists containing circuitous
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