bypass
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Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
But Gulf producers, shipping companies and the U.S. adapted through U.S. military protection, mine-cleared lanes, commercial vessels’ traveling covertly, ship-to-ship transfers outside the Gulf, and bypass routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The company has also added 700 trucks to its Middle East fleet and committed $500 million to build two new port facilities on the Gulf of Oman to bypass Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The French military and Directorate General for Armament want to tap into Renault's mass-production capabilities to bypass traditional, slower defence supply chains.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I riffle through the herbal tea bags in the kitchenette, Lemon Mist, Morning Thunder, and bypass them in favor of some thick, jolting, poisonous coffee.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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That technically bypasses the electric grid regular customers use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
I saw her across the bay, from the great road that bypasses Sausalito and enters the Golden Gate Bridge.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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However, Shao sees OpenAI’s new ad integration as evidence that “Shopify may be becoming more deeply embedded in agentic commerce rather than being bypassed by it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He turned professional with limited amateur experience, bypassed the traditional British, Commonwealth and European title path and built much of his reputation fighting against ageing former champions.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"If that gets bypassed, then of course local residents are going to worry that they're getting all of the pain and none of the benefit."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
We asked four successful entrepreneurs who bypassed a degree how they built their businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
He laughed, but didn’t offer to explain why he’d bypassed the library.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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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
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
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
“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
On its own, that may read like spiritual bypassing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
My intention was to creep across the neck of Ontario, bypassing not only Erie but Cleveland and Toledo.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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