detour

The delays were costly in lives, time and money, with the flight detour costing another $20,000 in fuel for the jet that a private donor had lent them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Later, back at NH Collection Suecia, Hemingway’s old Madrid address and my lucky perch for the week, I detour into the restroom.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

However, Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel,” a cultish detour, was a surprise revelation.“That had a deep impact on me,” Tiernan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

An engineering degree in Bengaluru followed, though she speaks of it now like a temporary detour.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

And that is the reason for our detour to Joliet.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

A single definition sends her into a spiral over such terms as “average coral” and “sea pink,” while elsewhere imaginative riffs and historical detours pull the reader well beyond the book’s central thread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

With most of the square blocked, pedestrians have to take long detours, and those who had planned for other events in the area are uncertain of what happens now.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Those musical detours are crucial to breaking up the episodes into distinct sections and provide renewed points of interaction in videos that often last between 40 minutes and an hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Tourists and taxi drivers have been forced to make lengthy detours, but the Colosseum Archaeological Park remained open to visitors.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

“We make a lot of detours, but we’re always heading for the same destination.”

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

By plans laid ahead of time, most caravan vehicles detoured around the party while select caravan cars followed a police escort through the action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

He then detoured to law school at Georgetown and briefly became a First Amendment lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Several main roads in and around downtown, as well as some bus routes, have been closed or detoured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

When she was about 16, she detoured into what she called her “boy era,” pulling back from rigorous year-round training to date and go to football games like other students.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

I turned and headed back—past the foundry, past Grandpa’s house, past the Cold Sassy tree and the depot, past our house, which I detoured around, and on toward the hotel and the block of stores.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She glanced at him once with what looked like a hint of contemptuousness and ended without detouring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

All eastbound trips near the intersection are detouring as delays are expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Yet, it’s disappointment that Perkins serves up most frequently in “The Monkey,” detouring from every wide-open chance to showcase depth and humanity in favor of juvenile humor and gross-out splatter gags.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

I figured out that they were detouring traffic off exit ramps prior to the bridge on each side.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong