bypass
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The East-West pipeline was also the conduit for that bypass.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
But challenger brand Light Helmets is using “guerrilla tactics” to bypass team gatekeepers, striking promotional deals with everyone from New Orleans Saints star Cam Jordan to a 13-year-old Alabama influencer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
These "pre-mortem" tissue samples came from consenting patients undergoing heart bypass procedures at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
According to the indictment, the state Constitution provides “a means for citizens to bypass the state legislature and enact statutes and constitutional amendments directly through the initiative process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I understand that Rasheed agha has tickets for the bus to Kabul that leaves shordy. So, in the interest of time, we will bypass some of the traditional steps to speed up the proceedings.”
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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While it may be scant consolation for those in communties around old urban motorways, bypasses like the one at Port Talbot are less likely to be built now.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Two main bypasses already exist and have the capacity to get some 8.5 million barrels of oil per day out of the region while avoiding the strait.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
Saudi Arabia increased security on its Red Sea pipeline and the United Arab Emirates did the same on a pipeline that bypasses Hormuz to Fujairah, a port on the Gulf of Oman, the officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Ritchie bypasses the pub and the betting shop the next day and actually starts looking for a job.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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In a blog post, external, the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Aman spokesperson said Walker bypassed the main entrance, ending up at staff access points instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Paramount and others have criticized the states’ case because prosecutors bypassed the increasingly important streaming business as part of their market definition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
However, poorer countries have largely been bypassed by that boom, attracting only 10% of the total invested in strategic sectors, and much of that focused on extracting natural resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
She bypassed the gallery and headed instead to the kitchen to talk to Great Ellen, whom she asked, in strict confidence, if it were possible to strengthen her lull.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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But for these dozen or twenty years bypast we have preferred a narrow beat, snugly seated on a shelty, and pad the hoof on the hill no more.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,—few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
By it all Acts bypast, and especially those of the five Jameses, not agreeing with God's Word and contrary to the Confession, and 'wherethrow divers innocents did suffer,' were abolished and extinguished for ever.
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by William Chambers
Without careful guardrails in place, children tend to use the platforms as shortcuts to answers, bypassing the messy, difficult cognitive processes that are essential for learning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter-turned-X helped spark a trend of “going direct” or bypassing traditional media and marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Instead of bypassing retinal processing, we aimed to reactivate it right at the same level of the retinal circuit as the lost photoreceptor cells."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The FT also reported that a member of staff at Gloucestershire Police was dismissed after bypassing safeguards to use an AI chatbot for police-related work "on numerous occasions".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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