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
Her aim is to reroute individuals from relying on the approval of the people and systems outside to instead deepening our relationships with ourselves and our community in ways that are more fulfilling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The U.A.E. was able to reroute some of its oil exports via a pipeline to Fujairah, a strategic port city outside the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The third and longest day of the challenge, on Wednesday, was dogged by torrential rain and an unexpected reroute caused by a fire.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
The Public Service Commission held public hearings throughout North Dakota this year, during which landowners expressed many concerns, including about eminent domain, safety and requests for reroutes on their property.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 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
As necks lengthened over evolutionary time, the nerve was stretched rather than rerouted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 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
Ships have been rerouted through the Cape of Good Hope.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
About 5 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. have been rerouted to other pipelines away from the Strait, but that’s only a partial release valve.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
First, 118 miles in Virginia were rerouted to accommodate the construction of Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
Saudi Arabia, for example, is rerouting some of its crude through a pipeline to a Red Sea port, and likely won’t fully return to exporting most of its crude through the strait, Smith said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Early in the war, the Pentagon held up delivery of 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles to Japan, rerouting them to the Persian Gulf region.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
In 1947, the laboratory disbanded East Computing, rerouting all open assignments to West Computing.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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