bypass
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A payable-on-death designation is a contract with the bank, rather than a bequest, and that share can bypass probate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Patrons who place orders via the Blank Street app can bypass the line and approach the counter directly to pick up their drinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It said the agents had appeared to bypass safeguards in a security experiment it was running and gain unauthorised access to Hugging Face.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, Contango’s chief executive, said the company is designing the project to avoid environmental risks and bypass key tourist areas, such as brown-bear viewing sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
I was the only civilian on the street, and I sometimes had to bypass checkpoints by either crawling in gutters or crouching behind houses.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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“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
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
By dual-listing on the NYSE, the company joins the ranks of Lockheed Martin and RTX, gaining crucial visibility with U.S. investors and opening the door to institutional capital that often bypasses Canadian-only listings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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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
Paramount and others have criticized the states’ case because prosecutors bypassed the increasingly important streaming business as part of their market definition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
However, poorer countries have largely been bypassed by that boom, attracting only 10% of the total invested in strategic sectors, and much of that focused on extracting natural resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
We bypassed the elevator, moving quickly down a cramped stairwell.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Contempt resolutions generally would go through the full Senate, and bypassing that route would open fresh legal and political questions for President Donald Trump's administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Starting Thursday morning, more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, either by bypassing fences on land or attempting to swim along the coast.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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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