detour

Example Sentences

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So “what initially looked like a catastrophic blockade begins to resemble a constrained detour rather than a full seizure of the artery,” Innes said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

The career detour surprised fellow bankers, who said they didn’t view him as particularly partisan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

That detour gave me a chance to admire the stone ruins of a hotel that was built next to the springs in 1870s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Even the romantic era of superstars like Shah Rukh Khan offered only a brief detour - one he has since abandoned in favour of action-heavy blockbusters such as Pathaan and Jawan.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

Like the Richter scale, the proposed index would be logarithmic, so what follows is a little detour to review for the innumerate those dreaded monsters from high school algebra: logarithms.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos