circuitous
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In “Task,” I wanted to explore a crisis of faith with honesty and without easy answers, because that is exactly how I have found my own faith journey — arduous and circuitous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
In that case, exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood say they can’t trace back the cost basis because of the holding’s circuitous route.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
People travelling between Al-Eizariya and Jerusalem would have to take a circuitous route three times longer than the present journey, he said.
From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025
Later, she would drive herself and the children, taking the most circuitous route possible.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing circuitous
100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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Grade 12, List 3
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