redirect
verb
, ˌrē-(ˌ)dī-\
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Synonyms for redirect
Synonyms: Verb
deflect, divert, swing, turn, veer, wheel, whip
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Examples of redirect in a Sentence
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They dug trenches near the river to redirect the flow of the water. Traffic will be redirected to avoid downtown. Visitors to the old Web site address are redirected automatically to the new one. I tried to redirect their attention to the other painting. It's time to redirect your energy to your homework.
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Yastrzemski then won it by redirecting Lopez’s 96-mph fastball onto the balcony hanging above right-center field. — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, "Giants’ Yastrzemski credits work with Vandy teammate for 2019 power surge," 17 Aug. 2019 So one day metamaterials may be used to lessen the damage to infrastructure from earthquakes by redirecting the more shallow, surface seismic waves that typically inflict the worst structural damage. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Novel “invisibility cloaks” for water waves leave no telltale wakes or drag," 13 Aug. 2019 The fallout is unclear, but the attack raises the specter of man-in-the-middle attacks carried out by redirecting website traffic to cloned servers. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, "In Apple We Trust—Cyber Saturday," 13 July 2019 Coronary bypass surgery corrects blocked and partially blocked arteries by redirecting blood flow. — Maggie O'neill, Health.com, "Who Was René Favaloro? What to Know About the Pioneering Doctor in Today's Google Doodle," 12 July 2019 The Inter-American Development Bank could do so by redirecting existing funds without new U.S. expenditures, and could get started with a phone call in Washington. — George P. Shultz And Pedro Aspe, WSJ, "Make Central America Great Again," 10 July 2019 Though the scholarships are covered by private donations, which have now grown to $92 million for Cleveland kids, local government and non-profits cover student supports by redirecting social service money and programs to the schools. — Patrick O'donnell, cleveland.com, "Wraparound services are focus of county’s contribution to Say Yes to Education," 6 July 2019 The crux of AMLO’s strategy is to bend the state to his political project, by redirecting public spending. — The Economist, "AMLO’s populism is both rampant and constrained," 4 July 2019 The country's National Energy Administration said service was restored by afternoon by redirecting energy from the Itaipu hydroelectric plant the country shares with neighboring Brazil. — Anchorage Daily News, "Massive blackout hits tens of millions in South America," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'redirect.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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