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And if you detour to the second-floor library, you’ll get the best view of a banana-yellow starfighter from “The Phantom Menace” that dangles over the lobby with R2-D2 perched in the tandem seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Because the process cannot be reversed, a major chromosome detour can permanently influence where a lineage ends up in what researchers describe as "genome-architecture space."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

There is a brief detour about frozen salmon.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

New Zealander Woods and her team battled two heatwaves, storms, a swarm of horseflies, and wildfires that resulted in a detour that added five kilometres and 200m of treacherous climbing to her route.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

They continued to the southeast for an unplanned but necessary detour.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Flyovers speed traffic while forcing pedestrians into hazardous detours below.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

“The Odyssey” is a saga with half a dozen detours and one destination, Ithaca, Odysseus’ kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Others sensed turbulence approaching and took detours around destructive winds.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

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

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

Instead she detoured in the direction of my table.

From "Stargirl" 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

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

I figured out that they were detouring traffic off exit ramps prior to the bridge on each side.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

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

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

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste