circuitous
Example Sentences
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But the shipments continued through ever-more circuitous routes, and used other nations as launchpads for RSF attacks.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
"Flights already doing circuitous routing have even less choice."
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
However, some Gulf Coast shippers have devised a nifty Jones Act work-around that involves a circuitous route through the Bahamas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
In that case, exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood say they can’t trace back the cost basis because of the holding’s circuitous route.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
He takes a circuitous route around the Hub, away from the mass of Exclusion Guards and internees who are still pouring out of the Mess and toward the Midway.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Vocabulary lists containing circuitous
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Grade 12, List 3
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