bypass
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"China's domestic lithography advances bypass Western supply chains entirely, hitting equipment makers hardest," Angela Harmantas at Proactive Investors wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Citizenship and Immigration Services allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The decision to bypass the preliminary injunction hearing process could speed up the legal process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It took 13 years from the Port Talbot bypass being commissioned in 1953 to opening in 1966 when it cut journey times between Bridgend and Swansea by about 20 minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
I start to run a program to bypass them.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Even a question on Kylian Mbappe's captaincy was bypassed: "The most important thing for him now is to rest, we'll have the chance to speak in September."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Both agreements bypassed the necessary parliamentary approvals, said Charles Kanjama, president of the Law Society of Kenya, which was part of lawsuits against both deals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Locke educators say evaluators have bypassed a crucial element: academic growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Friday’s action comes after reports that a user had bypassed the safety guardrails of Anthropic’s Fable 5, adding to worries about cyberattacks that have built up since the company began previewing Mythos earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
And others that could be similar, if what Poole hinted at is true: that the one-day limit is only for newcomers, and can be somehow bypassed.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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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 Wilson, John Lyde
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Innes, A. Taylor
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 Chambers, William
But concerns have been raised 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, Agence France Presse reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Consumers bypassing or canceling their cable subscriptions are cutting into the fees stations receive from pay TV providers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
“In that sense, infrastructure bypassing Hormuz and storage capacity around the world would be crucial.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The move comes even as other Gulf states, unconvinced by the US security umbrella, have engaged with Iran, and despite Oman's rise as a regional logistics hub bypassing the strait.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
You wash your hands, bypassing the paper towel dispenser, shaking the water off.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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