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Recent Examples of indirection
Their plan for stealing it right out from under her involves everything from impersonating a Vanity Fair photographer to having Daniel crash the party with a big speech that’s a masterpiece of indirection.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
Compared with Severance’s usual storytelling mode in season two, where any explicit plot point is buried in layers of ambiguity, vagueness, and artful indirection, the conversation between the Marks is immediately, beautifully blunt.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
His direction is the art of indirection, something borne out by other films in the MOMA retrospective.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
Compared with Severance’s usual storytelling mode in season two, where any explicit plot point is buried in layers of ambiguity, vagueness, and artful indirection, the conversation between the Marks is immediately, beautifully blunt.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
His direction is the art of indirection, something borne out by other films in the MOMA retrospective.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirection
Noun
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This is an unnecessary evasiveness in the mid-2020s when everyone from Beyoncé to proud MAGA musicians occupy space on the same charts.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
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Mamdani’s team has repeatedly cut short contentious public and press engagements, giving him a reputation for evasiveness.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2025
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His inner self is right there and raw at the surface, leaving him incapable of dissembling, which is why Lancaster Dodd likes him so much.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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McCarthy is not the first Hollywood conservative to discuss the industry’s secretiveness over Republicanism.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Indirection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirection. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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