detour

“When there’s setbacks like this, you just wanna stand by him as close as you can and into this next phase on this detour to getting back onto the field.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

This mathematical detour allowed the scientists to extract information about critical collapse that had previously been extremely difficult to obtain analytically.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The most infectious song on the album is Ms Paper, which takes a detour into Bouyon – a Dominican music characterised by high tempos and frantic percussion.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

There is a brief detour about frozen salmon.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

He should never have let Cal talk him into that detour to the creek, girls or no girls.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

If the film feels episodic while tracking the detours of the four—some antic, others grave—that’s partly the point: Among other things, the movie is a brief for leisure as a source of pleasure and disclosure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

At points “En Route” detours into encounters with less-familiar literary lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The road is long and weary, filled with detours and extended stops.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

He next found himself taking detours to cover new streets in Northeast Los Angeles as he’d ride to and from Koreatown Run Club meet-ups at Los Angeles Community College.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“The gas stations aren’t pumping, and we’ll be facing military detours again.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Parton "detoured the whole entourage to come around over there to where we were and then she knelt down to talk to Heather for a minute".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

Finding myself nearby, I’d detoured to have a look — and there was Mr. Khan, at first looking at me curiously and then waving me over to join him.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

Now there are more cars on the road around us, and all traffic is detoured right.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

A cost-benefit analysis of detouring for a lower price per gallon.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

The bus stopped in front of a police officer, who was detouring traffic.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste