: on or along the way
- he reads en route
- arrived early despite en route delays
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Trains may have to stop at the 21st Street bridge in Chicago while workers manually operate the bridge, and trains may incur more delay time en route, Metra said.
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The Sixers won the previous eight en route to ending the season with a 16-game winning streak.
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The troop deployment appeared to catch military and Homeland Security officials by surprise last week, as President Trump fumed at Mexico over reports that a caravan of more than 1,000 Central American migrants was en route to the U.S. border.
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The troop deployment appeared to catch military and Homeland Security officials by surprise last week, as President Trump fumed at Mexico over reports that a caravan of more than 1,000 Central American migrants was en route to the U.S. border.
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Round out your route by passing through Confederation Square and the Plaza Bridge en route to Riviera, the final destination on this lively tour of Ottawa.
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The problem was that someone was already en route to pick him up and take him to the U.S. border.
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One theory is that the piece simply broke en route and an intuitive Delevingne customized it on the spot, transforming the statement belt into, well, a statement necklace.
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Dispatchers said three piles of metal were burning and crews were at the scene and en route.
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Origin and Etymology of en route
French
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adverb
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än-ˈrüt
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: on or along the way
- I finished my homework en route to school.
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