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Circuitous

Circuitous meaning

Not direct or to the point. | Being a long and winding route.

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Alexandra is an award-winning writer of short stories, novels, and scripts, but took a rather circuitous route into the profession.

Breeze Airways initially announced last year it would offer a similar nonstop flight, but by the time the route launched, the carrier decided to add a connection via a circuitous path through the Northeast.

Compared to Microsoft Word, the younger Google Docs has a slightly more circuitous process for creating a text box.

It was a river ride along the mangrove forest where we were treated to 25 minutes of hovercraft ride along a circuitous route of miles and miles of mangrove.

She faced a tough choice: endure homelessness as the war raged nearby or take the only way out — a long, circuitous and uncertain journey through Russia.

The fairy tale imagery, social commentary, and circuitous yet thoughtful plot will intrigue the minds of viewers.

The path from Omar’s religion to her ouster from the Foreign Affairs Committee is at the very least more circuitous than directly Islamophobic or racist beliefs, but it’s nonetheless clear.

As Starmer is discovering, having also warned that “things will get worse before they get better”, prime ministers who promise to reverse national decline by a circuitous route risk deepening the sense of disillusionment.

Now the best-known name in his field, Squires admits his journey to becoming a full-time illustrator of footballing cartoons was no less circuitous than the Magic Roundabout outside the County Ground.

A recent book, “Lincoln On The Verge by Ted Widmer, follows Lincoln’s circuitous 13-day train trip from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration on March 4, 1861.

Former Burroughs High standout football player, Erick Hernandez, has taken a circuitous route to get to where he is today.

He’s also a smooth ball handler, a good rebounder for his size, and a confident playmaker whose on-court savvy – and, yes, star power – is the result of a uniquely circuitous route to the NBA’s doorstep.

I recently received a selection of four most enjoyable wines from DO Navarra, by a rather circuitous route!

Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that CBP drove a detained protester, his face hooded by his hat, in a circuitous, disorienting path before arriving to detain him back at the federal courthouse near where he had been detained.

These coho made it to sea as juveniles, survived to fatten and grow in the vast ocean, escaped fisheries in Alaska and Puget Sound to return — via a circuitous route through the locks — to get this far.

They took a circuitous route home, visiting chef friends in cities — Asheville, Charleston — whose restaurants had reopened.

A Dalit writer and activist, Durai Guna, has been arrested in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai district for putting up sarcastic ‘recruitment’ posters — critical of the district administration in a circuitous way — across his native town.

Although this might seem a little circuitous to outside investors, I would argue that there is a method to this “three-card monte” madness.

Rio Grande creates a natural barrier along nearly two-thirds of the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border, and its looping bends and circuitous course make it nearly impossible to build a lineal barrier along the international boundary.

She wrote of his plight and the circuitous journey to Greece and back home – where he said he was happy to see his family but regretted the return and that he wants to come back to the European Union, hopefully Germany, where his brother lives in Munich.