alternate route
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That alternate route can take about two weeks to cross the Atlantic, while a standard container ship would take about nine days, and an airplane would only take eight hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
While he has not pushed Congress to formally authorise the creation of a US fund, the Intel investment model might provide an alternate route without the oversight and regulation that could accompany congressional action.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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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