reroute
verb
re·route
(ˌ)rē-ˈrüt 
-ˈrau̇t
rerouted; rerouting
: to send or direct (something) on or along a different route
rerouting flights/traffic
Bypassing roads, of course, was a prime consideration in rerouting the trail …—
Paul Dunphy
Paul Dunphyautomatically reroutes incoming calls
: to switch to a different route
The storm forced planes/ships to reroute.
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During this recent Code Red, however, all 311 calls about homeless welfare were automatically being rerouted to 911, Coleman says.
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Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2026
Russia’s fiscal reserves are dwindling, and oil and gas revenues have cratered as many countries rerouted to alternative suppliers.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Infrastructure designed with containment logic could isolate affected nodes, preserve operations elsewhere and dynamically reroute critical services while remediation continues.
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Akhilesh Sharma,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
In the early two-thousands, Colombian cocaine traffickers, seeking to evade tightening controls in their country, began to reroute shipments through coastal towns in Manabí and elsewhere in Ecuador.
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Will Freeman,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
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Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2026
Russia’s fiscal reserves are dwindling, and oil and gas revenues have cratered as many countries rerouted to alternative suppliers.
—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Infrastructure designed with containment logic could isolate affected nodes, preserve operations elsewhere and dynamically reroute critical services while remediation continues.
—
Akhilesh Sharma,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
In the early two-thousands, Colombian cocaine traffickers, seeking to evade tightening controls in their country, began to reroute shipments through coastal towns in Manabí and elsewhere in Ecuador.
—
Will Freeman,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for reroute
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“Reroute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reroute. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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