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detour

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Sure, an IPO is usually regarded as a road to riches, but there’s many a speed bump, detour, and dead-end on that hoped-for path to bundles of cash — especially in the presently buoyant ad tech land.

From Digiday

So Mankiewicz’s decision to target Hearst was shocking, and the explanation for it requires a detour into Mankiewicz’s long and winding biography.

From Vox

She said a detour was set up around the area, but traffic was backed up for about three miles.

If you’re planning on attending or booking a separate trip, keep these adventure detours in mind.

In order to see why, we need to take a brief detour through the philosophy of mathematics.

But this is also a parody of narcissism, just a little detour to eternity.

The ice cream remains reason enough to detour off I-84 for a visit to this mid-20th century gem.

I will detour for a moment because this where I often see interviewers and pundits roll their eyes.

On the way to the West Bank, perhaps you could take a detour to visit some of the African neighborhoods in Tel Aviv.

I knew what I wanted to do, and college just felt like a detour.

Leaving the main road a detour of a few miles enabled us to visit Crowland Abbey shortly before reaching Peterborough.

Had we known of this at the time, a short detour would have taken us through its quaint streets.

The much-desired inn soon appeared, but, to the surprise of Gorenflot, Chicot caused him to make a detour and pass round the back.

Three armed with Winchesters made a long detour and dropped quietly into the sage-brush just beyond accurate pistol-range.

The enemy opened fire without delay, so the Yeomanry had to make a wide detour.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detour, such as: deviation, diversion, branch, bypass, bypath, and byway.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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