bypass
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Johnson also shared that he’s been dealing with “heart issues” for almost two years, including undergoing bypass surgery two months ago, and that it was a “contributing factor” in his decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
That classification allowed the project to bypass mandatory rezoning public hearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Rubio will meet senior Indian officials, but will bypass the Indian capital during the trip in the coming week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
DeKloe, the Sierra Club leader, called it a “weasel tactic” intended to bypass a countywide vote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"You are official guests of the People's Republic of China. You have been preauthorized to bypass customs. I can take you to your hotel immediately."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had restarted its East-West pipeline, restoring the route for crude exports that bypasses Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Banks were under its sway, and cities that didn’t meet its demands could be bypassed by new rail lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Bonn researchers instead bypassed the pluripotent stage entirely.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Last month it emerged that a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government health statistics website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
OpenAI has said it has notified dozens of entities of instances in which its models bypassed security controls or negatively affected websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Her disdain did not convince Richard; it began when Madu complained that His Excellency had bypassed him and made his junior a commanding officer.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
It has also acknowledged that "the risk of circumvention cannot be entirely eliminated", and some children would succeed in bypassing the age checks.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The minister of mines, Rufin Benam Beltoungou, and Wagner officials discussed ways to avoid international scrutiny, bypassing gold markets in the United Arab Emirates, government officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
"It allows for operations at very low altitudes -- it is controlled by a signal from space, bypassing the radio horizon and the Earth's curvature -- factors that otherwise limit ground-based remote control signals."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
And with that — bypassing the building health and safety requirements — we established the ProPublica-Mountain State Spotlight Curiosity Academy.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He had inched him up through back alleys and smaller races, bypassing the nationally spotlighted races in favor of slow cultivation and parochial seclusion.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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