reroute
Americanverb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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reroutesimple
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reroutessimple
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have reroutedperfect
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has reroutedperfect
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am reroutingprogressive
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are reroutingprogressive
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is reroutingprogressive
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have been reroutingperfect progressive
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has been reroutingperfect progressive
Past
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reroutedsimple
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had reroutedperfect
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was reroutingprogressive
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were reroutingprogressive
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had been reroutingperfect progressive
Future
Example Sentences
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The note was given to the pilot, who was told to reroute the plane.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The EU will also be on the lookout for circumvention, as well as any effort to reroute small parcels to the bloc via countries like Switzerland.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Self-healing grids: During heat waves, artificial intelligence would reroute power for maximum efficiency, eking out extra performance to avoid blackouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Metro Board ultimately voted to reroute the line at significant additional cost, away from a corridor the agency had acquired for rail use decades earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
“Sammy,” I want to call out, “keep playing ‘Slow Boat to China,’ but reroute that canoe to Russia,” but instead I just step forward, out of line.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
“The system kind of reroutes your perception to make you feel like you are somewhere else.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Current treatments consist of a series of three open heart surgeries all before the patient's 5th year of life that reroutes oxygenated blood supply to the right ventricle.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Some bus routes may also be affected by road closures, including possible short-term reroutes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
“He’s like, ‘Have you heard of lava dams, where volcanic rocks and lava creates a dam and reroutes the river?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
That treatment is bariatric surgery, a drastic operation that turns the stomach into a tiny pouch and, in one version, also reroutes the intestines.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018
Instead, traffic stands at 50%, including 7 million barrels a day of rerouted pipeline for flows increasingly vulnerable to Red Sea disruption.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
As necks lengthened over evolutionary time, the nerve was stretched rather than rerouted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
When their flight was rerouted to Santo Domingo, one of the members visited his ailing father, who died a day later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But where things go awry is when that love is placed in the technology itself, rather than being rerouted into reality.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The press had been censored, removed, restricted, rerouted.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Saudi Arabia is also rerouting some of its oil through the Suez Canal.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
With additional funds promised from others, Mr. Coyne oversaw plans for the following year: a partial rerouting of the course, several new fairways and a top-to-bottom clubhouse makeover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Allegiant Airlines also canceled its LAX operations in January, rerouting flights out of Hollywood Burbank Airport instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Sidewalk closures, fence hopping and rerouting were common for these experimental pedestrians who often concluded that this is not a good plan for getting to the World Cup.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
“We’re rerouting all traffic onto Burton for the next few hours. I apologize for the inconvenience.”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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