reroute
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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
The report, from the consultancy Teneo, says that airspace restrictions caused by the conflict have forced airlines to reroute many flights, increasing the amount of fuel they have to use.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Recent disruptions in the Red Sea—Houthi attacks that have raised insurance costs for commercial shippers, forced vessels to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, and added weeks to supply chains—have compounded that vulnerability.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The Saudi East-West pipeline and a few others in the region can reroute some of that product, but not the majority of it.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
After the Georgia station shut down—he didn’t know the details, but gossip held it had been discovered—they were testing all the lines in order to reroute traffic.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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