detour

That’s 28 miles as the crow flies, but our route, with a detour for lunch in Cuyama, swelled the journey to more than 100 miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

New Zealander Woods and her team battled two heatwaves, storms, a swarm of horseflies, and wildfires that resulted in a detour that added five kilometres and 200m of treacherous climbing to her route.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The researchers describe vertebrate eyes as the product of an unusual evolutionary detour.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The detour to Asia can add a delay of some 20-30 days, Bronze said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

“And you think it is worth taking a detour from your current mission to pursue this?”

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Speaking to Beijing News, a resident who lives about 1km away from the factory said villagers now have to take detours after stones were blasted onto the road.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

Yet as the story progresses, the unnamed author’s detours and digressions pile up, and Bernadette’s actual adventures begin to feel like an afterthought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

But the route here has involved individual detours during their hiatus.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The southbound highway lanes were closed and traffic detoured for the police response.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

By the time Cillian Murphy won his leading actor award, he gracefully detoured to the stairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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

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

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

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste