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While Saudi Arabia has rerouted some supplies through existing pipelines to export terminals elsewhere, analysts including Rapidan Energy Group say 10 million or more barrels of petroleum a day remain throttled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

WSF has rerouted its extra Bainbridge boat to that crossing, meaning three boats will sometimes be churning through the docks when enough crew is available.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The mound outside Mr. Hijawy’s flower shop has rerouted Nablus-bound traffic through another town, depriving him of almost all passing customers and leaving his flowers to wilt unsold.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

It is as if Ray has rerouted all the buzziest themes, tendencies and conceptual tributaries of contemporary art into the glacial flow of his perfectionist oeuvre.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

A number of environmental factors made that extension problematic, so Zumthor has rerouted his building so that it turns south, over and across Wilshire Boulevard, where it lands in what is now a parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2014