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alternate route



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The concern is that the Red Sea alternate route for oil exports may also face disruption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Many sanctioned vessels currently appear to be taking an alternate route around the west coast of Ireland.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

Not so Maps, which, as we neared San José, began chiming in with a quite complicated alternate route, designed, I assumed, to avoid freeway traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.”

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman


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