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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

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

Drivers have been advised to use the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge as an alternate route.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

They had heard on the radio that we were taking an alternate route.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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