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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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In some of the latest developments, Saudi Arabia closed its East-West pipeline — which had been used to bypass the largely impassable Strait of Hormuz — after drone attacks on the facility.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

While customers bypass extras, like the snacks at the front counter, Murillo’s costs have gone up.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The research also relied on a world-first approach involving heart tissue collected from living patients during bypass surgery.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

The U.S. is guiding convoys through the Strait of Hormuz, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are routing more crude through pipelines that bypass the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

After hearing the tale of the demon, Tali suggested, “Perhaps we should bypass Ento altogether.”

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

But some of the pollution bypasses the plants and pours directly into the river.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Permian production bypasses Cushing on its way to Gulf refineries and to export from the newly expanded Port of Corpus Christi through pipelines, which have also been expanded.

From MarketWatch Jun. 6, 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

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

She bypasses the cookware, flips through the pages.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Attacks last week shut down a crucial crude pipeline in Saudi Arabia that bypassed the Strait, stranding at least 2.5 million barrels a day from an already tight global oil market, analysts estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

We asked four successful entrepreneurs who bypassed a degree how they built their businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

With preliminary court battles now bypassed, legal teams for both sides must submit a proposed trial schedule by 31 July.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

There was the usual line of holiday visa hopefuls stretching to the corner of Elevator Plaza, but Holly bypassed it by waving her badge at the waiting line.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

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

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

"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

They’re becoming more tempting to many because they give buyers access to otherwise unavailable seats, bypassing ticket draw lotteries like the one that happened in April and another that wraps up Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Now as more Americans rethink the value of college, the idea of bypassing a degree is gaining luster among a new set of founders, our colleagues Chip Cutter and Allison Pohle report.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Opponents have repeatedly questioned the law's viability and raised concerns over privacy, the efficacy of age-verification tools, the risks of young people bypassing them, and how quickly the ban has been designed and brought in.

From BBC Aug. 14, 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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