detour
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The 4-mile detour toward Sagehen Summit is worth your effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“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
And on my way there, I took a three-block detour to my old house—the one I lived in when we first moved to town.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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But the Everton midfielder is no stranger to taking the long road to success, having experienced plenty of setbacks and detours throughout his career.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Fielder, the film’s ringmaster, has no choice but to forgo conventional documentary tactics and seek detours.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
If the film feels episodic while tracking the detours of the four—some antic, others grave—that’s partly the point: Among other things, the movie is a brief for leisure as a source of pleasure and disclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
Slowly, with many halts and detours, the Costas’ boat drew nearer the fens, that wide and never fully mapped wilderness of huge skies and endless marshland in Eastern Anglia.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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While nearby making an appearance at a convention, King noticed Asher’s chocolate in her hotel room and detoured to one of its factories in July 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
He then detoured to law school at Georgetown and briefly became a First Amendment lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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
Traffic was detoured from both ends of the block.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
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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