roundabout way
Example Sentences
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So in a roundabout way, VAR protocol meant Arsenal were penalised for Taylor not getting the red card correct.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
What happened Tuesday is serious and big, but I start in a roundabout way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025
When Pecker says he met Trump in early January, 2017—after the election but before the inauguration—Trump asked him about the McDougal story in the most roundabout way possible.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2024
The first of Mig’s wishes was granted, in a roundabout way, when King Phillip outlawed soup.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
