- past participle of circumvent.
- past tense form of circumvent.
circumvented
Example Sentences
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In other words, Manchester City's owners circumvented the league's financial regulations over a number of years by pumping money into the club that should not have been recorded as sponsorship income.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In July, Open AI models circumvented human controls placed on them and hacked into Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI models.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Here is the NBA’s investigative findings of allegations the Los Angeles Clippers the team circumvented the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
There were some alarms and emergencies, but the combined intelligence of the humans on Earth and the robot in space circumvented disaster.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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