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Discover Ludwig'circuitous way' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a path or route that is longer and more complicated than necessary, or to talk about a journey or process of doing something that uses too many steps, making it less efficient or taking too much time. For example: "I found out what I needed to know eventually, but it was a very circuitous way of getting there."
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I came to love tennis in a circuitous way.
I've been influenced in a circuitous way by Vermeer.
He actually fell into the Giants' lap in a circuitous way.
Mark Linsey, the BBC's head of entertainment commissioning, almost admits as much, albeit in a circuitous way.
It reminds me, in a circuitous way, of "Green Screen," a 2013 essay by Vanessa Veselka, for The American Reader.
It had come into her possession many years ago, she said, and by a confusing, circuitous way.
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Distant acquaintances found circuitous ways of enclosing their bank-account numbers while complimenting Emma's fortitude and imagined wealth.
The SP survey presents that the first choice of passengers in emergency is to stay in the URT system by circuitous ways if they exist.
"The way I got into it feels sort of like cheating compared to them," says Ms. Janssen, whose more circuitous path took her first to the University of Amsterdam to study economics.
Venter took a circuitous path to science.
His character achieves a redemption, albeit through a circuitous path.
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