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  • In a circuitous manner.

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  • adverb in a circuitous manner

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Examples

  • Former ambassador, Joseph Wilson IV was sent to Niger to investigate claims made in a document provided circuitously from the Italian spy agency SISMI that Saddam was seeking yellow-cake uranium to produce a bomb.

    Gorilla Radio blog 2009

  • As the Nashville and the invasion convoy sailed circuitously to fool the Japanese, MacArthur, like an emperor on a galley, spent much of the next two days lounging on a deck chair outside his cabin chatting with aides, snoozing, and signing autographs for crewmen brave enough to approach him.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • It's upon a beach there that a attribu! te comes to an end, as well as upon a winding roads circuitously that Bahar forces Isa off his moped.

    Iklimler (Climates) - Movie Atlas admin 2009

  • Caren Cajamarca, 9, of Patchogue, N.Y., during a commemorative circuitously a site of a fatal stabbing of Marcelo Lucero final Saturday night.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Anti-immigrant hostility has led to multiform highly publicized attacks in new years in Suffolk County, together with a near-death violence of two Mexican day laborers in 2001 as well as a blazing of a Mexican familys residence in 2003, both in a circuitously locale of Farmingville.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Augar notes how the one-stop-shop American model led, if often circuitously, to our current crisis.

    Robert Teitelman: Big Bang, Now and Then Robert Teitelman 2011

  • The novel was written slowly, circuitously, and without expectations.

    The Madonnas of Leningrad : The Story Behind The Book by Debra Dean 2010

  • It isn't an attempt to "say" anything, except circuitously or by accident.

    Saying Something 2010

  • As the Nashville and the invasion convoy sailed circuitously to fool the Japanese, MacArthur, like an emperor on a galley, spent much of the next two days lounging on a deck chair outside his cabin chatting with aides, snoozing, and signing autographs for crewmen brave enough to approach him.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • How can the 40,000 vehicles that now access the AWV via Elliott/Western be rerouted through residential Lower Queen Anne ala Mercer West and halfwits like you have no concern about the health impact to folks there, or the hassle it'll be for motorists to be circuitously rerouted?

    McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010

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