detouring

present participle of detour
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as in deviating
to change one's course or direction we had to detour for a few miles around the section of highway under construction

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Recent Examples of detouring In Expedia's report, some popular destinations include detouring from Brescia, Italy, to Milan, and from Santa Barbara, California, to Los Angeles. Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • This isn’t the first study to suggest the importance of breakfast for living a long life—research has shown that regularly eating a morning meal is linked with lower overall and heart-related mortality (and that bypassing it can up your heart-disease risk).
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The whole point was to build open, borderless systems that couldn’t be switched off, bypassing the gatekeepers of traditional finance.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This was a logical progression in the war, as well as a response to the contradictions at the heart of an American policy that sought to assist Ukraine while avoiding direct confrontation with Russia.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This means not just avoiding harm, but also actively promoting health and well-being preventively.
    Kristen Moon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Part sports-underdog biopic, part domestic-abuse-survivor’s tale, and a textbook example of why turning a true story into tony entertainment is a real tightrope walk, this drama has extremely recognizable beats.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The other two possessions ended in a Jenkins interception and FIU turning the ball over on downs.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bogdan is ordered by Ventham to start digging at the back of the cemetery to begin property development, circumventing the protest at the entrance.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Starlink chip scammers might be circumventing Facebook’s fraud systems by not mentioning SpaceX or Starlink in the ad's text.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Imagine Maye triggering a triple-option run with Stevenson, keeping the ball and veering off the edge with Henderson behind him.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Without this alignment, these organizations risk mission drift, the default setting of veering further and further off course from their ultimate destination.
    Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Detouring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detouring. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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