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as in bypassed
to avoid by going around
we had to detour the construction zone in order to get to the stadium
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as in deviated
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 detoured
Bike traffic will be detoured around the closure through Agnew Road, Lakeshore Drive, Gianera Street, and Stars and Stripes Drive.
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Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
29 June 2026
Traffic was detoured along a route that took drivers an additional six to eight hours to navigate, and the state issued a disaster declaration to acquire federal funding.
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Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Eastbound traffic on Santa Fe, north of Brougham Drive, will be detoured as part of closure three.
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Emily Harter,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
During the closure, motorists will be detoured from Richards Boulevard to westbound I-80, then routed to Old Davis Road to return to eastbound I-80, Caltrans said.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
In the nearly seven years since her Sweetener World Tour, Grande detoured from her hugely successful pop career to amplify her acting aspirations.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
Southbound lanes remained closed seven hours after the crash, with traffic being detoured.
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Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
Following the incident, the highway was temporarily closed and detoured as authorities continued to investigate the crash and what caused it.
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
Drivers detoured from the closed Chicago Avenue bridge pile behind them.
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Andrew Chrismer,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
29 June 2026
Traffic was detoured along a route that took drivers an additional six to eight hours to navigate, and the state issued a disaster declaration to acquire federal funding.
—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Eastbound traffic on Santa Fe, north of Brougham Drive, will be detoured as part of closure three.
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Emily Harter,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
During the closure, motorists will be detoured from Richards Boulevard to westbound I-80, then routed to Old Davis Road to return to eastbound I-80, Caltrans said.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
In the nearly seven years since her Sweetener World Tour, Grande detoured from her hugely successful pop career to amplify her acting aspirations.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
Southbound lanes remained closed seven hours after the crash, with traffic being detoured.
—
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
Following the incident, the highway was temporarily closed and detoured as authorities continued to investigate the crash and what caused it.
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
Drivers detoured from the closed Chicago Avenue bridge pile behind them.
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Andrew Chrismer,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for detoured
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The ugly Not only did Kenley Jansen get bypassed for a save opportunity despite warming up in Yankee Stadium, he was not called on at the bottom of the tenth either.
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How long a prisoner has spent on death row does not appear to be a deciding factor; DeSantis has bypassed prisoners who committed their crimes as far back as the 1970s, scheduling the executions of men convicted of murders committed decades later.
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And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition.
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She was also asked to perform the walk-and-turn exercise, and the one-leg stand exercise, and deviated from instruction on both counts.
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Indeed, the folks in Akron, Amherst and Monroe, among other locales, have long awaited the winds of change, which have avoided blowing out the stale air caused by chronic losing.
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Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo avoided a suspension for the start of this year’s tournament after a foul during a World Cup qualifier match.
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Volatile, quarrelsome, dogmatic, and sure of his own brilliance, Reinhold outraged patrons, amassed huge debts, and turned his eldest son into an exhausted workhorse.
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Paraguay seemed to fade after the Mbappé goal, but turned it on again late, forcing Mike Maignan to make his first save of the day about 89 and a half minutes into the match.
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In other words, if that water heater explodes, then the investor will be personally sued for negligence in not replacing it, and the liability shield of the real property company is thus circumvented.
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The clearance eases a confrontation that erupted two weeks ago when the government abruptly barred Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Mythos 5 and a related model, Fable 5, over fears that security guardrails could be circumvented.
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Bobrovsky’s hope didn’t truly run out until Florida swung a trade for Jacob Markstrom, a deal that was finalized early Tuesday afternoon.
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Never count out Tim Connelly, who swung the massive trades that brought Gobert and Ball to Minnesota and shipped off Karl-Anthony Towns days before training camp two years ago, but the Wolves will likely be looking elsewhere for a starting forward.
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As a result, the car veered off the road into a ditch, striking a delineator post and continuing into a tree line.
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Something that started off respectfully and and never veered from that path.
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