detour
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Community members are concerned the closure will increase traffic in residential areas not along the designated detour routes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
One star recognises high-quality cooking, two stars indicate excellent cooking worth a detour, while three stars are reserved for exceptional cuisine worth a special journey.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Rather than abandon the detour, the team decided to drill a sediment core there.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“When there’s setbacks like this, you just wanna stand by him as close as you can and into this next phase on this detour to getting back onto the field.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
When he sailed away she made a detour and came down to the river again and drove along parallel with him, the car in low gear.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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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
Neighbors whose streets became detours are fighting to bring back vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Flyovers speed traffic while forcing pedestrians into hazardous detours below.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
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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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
On a cold spring afternoon, while walking home from school, I detoured through the playground at the end of our alley.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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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
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
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
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