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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detour .
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Examples
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Unfortunately for President Obama, he had a momentary lapse, detoured from the teleprompter and showed the American people how he truly feels. sean
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All train/tubeworks tend to happen on weekends so my supposedly direct train detoured to a coach and back onto a train between Witham and Ipswitch.
Its the journey, not the destination HayleyM 2008
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All train/tubeworks tend to happen on weekends so my supposedly direct train detoured to a coach and back onto a train between Witham and Ipswitch.
Archive 2008-06-01 HayleyM 2008
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And I've seriously detoured from the outline twice already - something I could not have done waiting for the characters to start the car and head off on their own journey.
January 2007 2007
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And I've seriously detoured from the outline twice already - something I could not have done waiting for the characters to start the car and head off on their own journey.
Map Quest 2007
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Then he detoured to Mount Vernon, where he spent a day getting horses.44
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The stadium falls within an "outer security zone" surrounding the convention center, which means that fan access to the stadium would have been detoured around secure areas.
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Then he detoured to Mount Vernon, where he spent a day getting horses.44
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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“Delusional, disillusioned, detoured — I couldn't put my finger on it.”
On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2011
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Bush made a joke of Afghanastan + 9/11 when we detoured South to Iraq.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009
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