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 most infectious song on the album is Ms Paper, which takes a detour into Bouyon – a Dominican music characterised by high tempos and frantic percussion.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The detour to Asia can add a delay of some 20-30 days, Bronze said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

This detour is not a clever design, but a historical leftover from our fish-like ancestors when the nerve took a straightforward path around the gill arches.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Your G’pop and I attempted to take this detour fifty-one gosh-darn years ago.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

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 diversions mark the latest redrawing of global oil flows after months of war have forced producers, traders and shipowners to abandon familiar routes for ever costlier detours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Some sections were gone altogether, and there were interminable, long detours and many changes of train.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

And yet, Smith’s persona remains veiled — sphinx-like — an ethereal presence whose journey to fame was fueled by her questing spirit and later detoured by tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

Now there are more cars on the road around us, and all traffic is detoured right.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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