detour
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Then they traveled to Philadelphia for a three-game set, took a detour to Washington to visit the White House before returning to New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
This detour is not a clever design, but a historical leftover from our fish-like ancestors when the nerve took a straightforward path around the gill arches.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
But when the Dutch soccer fanatic saw his team would be playing along the border of Missouri and Kansas, he made a detour in his worldwide road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Later, back at NH Collection Suecia, Hemingway’s old Madrid address and my lucky perch for the week, I detour into the restroom.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Instead, she took a detour that brought her to the entry hall of Ashton Place.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
But the route here has involved individual detours during their hiatus.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
A single definition sends her into a spiral over such terms as “average coral” and “sea pink,” while elsewhere imaginative riffs and historical detours pull the reader well beyond the book’s central thread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Under his watch, he wrote, “no detours or even bathroom breaks are allowed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Mom told us the trip would be about fourteen hours if we took the highway, but we should tack on another couple of hours because we might make some scenic detours.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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He then detoured to law school at Georgetown and briefly became a First Amendment lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Several main roads in and around downtown, as well as some bus routes, have been closed or detoured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
Finding myself nearby, I’d detoured to have a look — and there was Mr. Khan, at first looking at me curiously and then waving me over to join him.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Southbound traffic on the 110 will be detoured to exit at the 10 Freeway interchange and reenter the 110 at either Exposition Boulevard or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Now there are more cars on the road around us, and all traffic is detoured right.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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
Flights to and from Taiwan and China, Taiwan and South Korea and Taiwan and Japan were amongst those detouring around the zone on Sunday morning, according to routes tracked on Flightradar24.
From Reuters ● Apr. 16, 2023
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
After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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