waylay

Charlize Theron is appropriately enchanting as Calypso, whose charms waylay and confuse Odysseus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Barkin said that the Fed will need to "walk a fine line" as it navigates between doing too much and doing too little, and that regardless any external shock has the potential to waylay policy.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is worried that the COVID-19 crisis might waylay his plans to increase the military budget.

From Slate ● May 5, 2020

But SNAs, at only billionths of a meter across, seem able to travel anywhere in the body and get inside cells before immune defenses can waylay them.

From Nature ● Dec. 3, 2019

All went well that day, and no sight or sound had they of the enemy waiting to waylay them.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But unlike in the past, Byrne’s new movie never waylays you with a surprise narrative wrinkle or unexpected thematic depth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

He follows aging pesh merga on their former patrols and waylays Christian and Yazidi pilgrims.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

But if anything waylays Dany, I doubt it will be a pretty boy.

From Slate ● May 20, 2013

Which waylays his own quest for redemption as he's forced to face his victims.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011

Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair because of the way I’ve treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In reality, the combination proved to be a distraction, and much of the effort was waylaid as Tesla struggled with producing its first mainstream car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

The Ukrainians descended the steps, to be met with a low-key American greeting, and with their optimism, like a piece of waylaid luggage, lost somewhere en route.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

And though it’s much easier now to find books and other media taking a range of perspectives on menopause, it’s also easy to be waylaid by influencers, charlatans and factionalism.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025

Steel, an insurance company vice president before her retirement, and her husband, Rich Booman, discovered the project during the pandemic when their travel plans were waylaid.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

And as her gaze fell on us, a chill passed through me, much like the one I’d felt years ago that time we’d waylaid her outside the main house.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Flu has also forced concert cancellations in recent months, waylaying performances by Christina Aguilera and the rock band KISS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Her first project is to get the rights to a fabulous Australian wine by waylaying a female vintner at her winery and B&B.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

At a 2006 banquet, Sejnowski publicly pressed Minsky on whether people were right to demonize him for waylaying neural nets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

After Wallace came Michael Moore, who became expert at waylaying the unexpecting in unexpected places.

From Slate ● May 26, 2010

“I’ve sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum. This is 'my territory now. And all you have is mine.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan