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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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Water could only pass through four 8-foot-wide bypass tubes, and that would limit how much would reach California, Arizona and Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Iran will also need financing, yet its wealthy neighbors are more interested in “Iran-proofing” their own economies—see Saudi Arabia’s $250 billion rail-and-pipeline project to bypass the Persian Gulf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

This planning includes the money you’re leaving to your cherished charitable causes: The more assets you can leave to beneficiaries as transfer-on-death or payable-on-death, the more of your estate will bypass probate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Tractors have been spotted moving slowly on the Sydenham bypass, near the Belfast City Airport, in both directions.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

And now a vast number of people have found a way to bypass it.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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