detour

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

The researchers describe vertebrate eyes as the product of an unusual evolutionary detour.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Two stars denote restaurants that do "excellent cooking" and are "worth a detour", according to Michelin's criteria.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

“It’s just a quick detour for context. Besides, I really want to see it.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Whether we planned for them or not, the road is filled with obstacles, detours and dead ends.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

He next found himself taking detours to cover new streets in Northeast Los Angeles as he’d ride to and from Koreatown Run Club meet-ups at Los Angeles Community College.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Land” regains traction when it returns to Ireland and to its mythic theme, which meanders from the Neolithic era to the 20th century, with detours to more fantastical regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Still checking the Marauder’s Map whenever he got a chance, he sometimes made detours to wherever Malfoy happened to be, but had not yet detected him doing anything out of the ordinary.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

It detoured a few thousand miles away to Utah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

By the time Cillian Murphy won his leading actor award, he gracefully detoured to the stairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

This time when Beans snatched a wounded bird flopping in the grass, instead of heading straight back to the wringmaster, he detoured over to Palmer.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

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

All eastbound trips near the intersection are detouring as delays are expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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

Frightened jockeys take what Luther called “the married man’s route,” timidly detouring around the outside of the pack.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand