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But in general, these are detours, not roadblocks.

He joins her for much of the journey, causing detours to photograph waste sites and abandoned munitions factories as part of a vague project on ecocide.

After a lifetime’s worth of detours that included four high schools and three colleges, Skyy was going to play for the hometown Bruins and his family was planning to move nearby.

Wickline pivots midway through when “Update” host Colin Jost tells her the song isn’t romantic enough, which leads to a creepy domestic detour that ends up coming right back to the trolley tracks.

For over a decade, his career path has included detours into forgettable international action-dramas — the kind of paychecks artists accept when their opportunities aren’t measuring up to their ambitions.