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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

He was heading for the golf course again, with a slight detour.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Speaking to Beijing News, a resident who lives about 1km away from the factory said villagers now have to take detours after stones were blasted onto the road.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

“The gas stations aren’t pumping, and we’ll be facing military detours again.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

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

I turned and headed back—past the foundry, past Grandpa’s house, past the Cold Sassy tree and the depot, past our house, which I detoured around, and on toward the hotel and the block of stores.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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