detour

“When my paycheck lands, it takes a detour through bitcoin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He praised the long history of US-China relations, although he did take an unscripted detour to praise his ongoing ballroom project.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Rather than abandon the detour, the team decided to drill a sediment core there.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

That’s 28 miles as the crow flies, but our route, with a detour for lunch in Cuyama, swelled the journey to more than 100 miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Well! I call that a good day’s work. I’m gonna calculate our detour route now. See you all at dinner!”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

At points “En Route” detours into encounters with less-familiar literary lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

I was in my late twenties at the time because I’d taken a few detours after I left high school, most of them dead ends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Born in Italy into a family of bricklayers, Rucci spent his youth in Youngstown, Ohio, and carved a path as a land-use attorney and developer with a few detours along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Some sections were gone altogether, and there were interminable, long detours and many changes of train.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Parton "detoured the whole entourage to come around over there to where we were and then she knelt down to talk to Heather for a minute".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

By plans laid ahead of time, most caravan vehicles detoured around the party while select caravan cars followed a police escort through the action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

It detoured a few thousand miles away to Utah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

When she was about 16, she detoured into what she called her “boy era,” pulling back from rigorous year-round training to date and go to football games like other students.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Occasionally a car sputtered up the hill from downtown and detoured around the sleeping dogs before parking in front of Peerless Painless Dentist, its driver getting out and walking nervously into the office.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

A cost-benefit analysis of detouring for a lower price per gallon.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

She glanced at him once with what looked like a hint of contemptuousness and ended without detouring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Yet, it’s disappointment that Perkins serves up most frequently in “The Monkey,” detouring from every wide-open chance to showcase depth and humanity in favor of juvenile humor and gross-out splatter gags.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

Caltrans suggests detouring via State Route 91, which runs east-west, and Interstate 605, which runs north-south.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

The bus stopped in front of a police officer, who was detouring traffic.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste