bypassing
Example Sentences
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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
Restaurant associations allege the official has been bypassing a statutory process, while courts have termed some of his actions "high-handed".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
Regional exports—including routes bypassing Hormuz—fell by 2.1 million barrels a day to 15 million barrels a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Feral asked, bypassing his spoon in favor of tipping back his bowl and drinking from it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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