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Recent Examples of indirection
But your art is very much that of indirection, Benjamin.
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Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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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Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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
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The framing captures the intensity of the city but also its evasiveness—these cars are neither here nor there but on their way somewhere else, underscoring Hong Kong’s historical identity as a transit hub, an entrepôt, a place intended for people to pass through, not to stay in.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Yet Nike still mostly chose silence and evasiveness.—
Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Such dissembling by the people who are where the buck stops raises doubt that the Pentagon’s final report will be candid.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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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 11 May. 2026.
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