circumvent
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Mohammad Hassan Najmi, an international relations expert, told AFP that Tehran "believes its membership and active participation in these alliances can enable it to circumvent US and European sanctions".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
L3Harris provides waveforms and radios that can help circumvent the type of electronic jamming that Russia has been using to disrupt Ukrainian drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Silver has called attempts to circumvent it a “cardinal sin.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
States also claim Meta committed unfair business practices by letting users create multiple Instagram accounts, which they say allows kids to circumvent parental controls and rules barring children under age of 13 from creating accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
His tracks led toward the east buttress of Denali, straight through a labyrinth of giant crevasses, evidence that he had made no apparent effort to circumvent obvious hazards.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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But Carvajal-Muñoz’s attorneys are testing a legal theory that circumvents these roadblocks by suing officers under state law for violations of his constitutional rights.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
“From Internet memes to late-night comedians, from cartoons to the plays and poems as old as organized government itself — Political Satire circumvents traditional gatekeepers & helps hold those in power accountable,” he continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
International social media platforms like X and YouTube are blocked in China, but can still be accessed with software that circumvents the country’s censorship systems.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Their technology circumvents the traditional high voltage requirement for blue OLEDs, leading to potential advancements in commercial smartphone and large screen displays.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Steve Ballmer, the team’s owner, invested $60 million into Aspiration, triggering allegations that the payment to Leonard circumvented the NBA salary cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
With swiftly circumvented filters and no discernment, LLMs deliver “expertise” even when they shouldn’t.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
They also say bans can be easily circumvented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Prohibitions on sales to nations at war remain but can be circumvented under special circumstances.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
The sentences tumbled out of my mouth, but the story circumvented my brain.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Since the start of the year, nine shadow fleet tankers suspected of circumventing sanctions have been seized around the EU.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
These laws restrict data collection and use to the purposes of gathering the data, and they prevent companies from circumventing these limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The issue has raised concerns about how players are circumventing the NBA’s salary cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
In 2007, he pleaded guilty to one count of circumventing accounting controls and paid $289,507 plus interest in disgorgement the following year.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
And by catching and circumventing threatening behavior early, there was a good chance of diverting those students toward a more positive path.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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