circumvention

Example Sentences

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Luckily, there are workarounds that allow for upgrades to Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, and the company isn’t blocking those circumventions.

From The Verge • Jul. 1, 2022

Delivering the rest of the money required masterful circumventions of constitutional intent.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2020

Early reviews of “Working Out New Material,” Ansari’s recent standup tour, picked at the comedian’s seemingly spooked circumventions of what everyone in the audience already knew.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2019

According to Lexmark, the authenticity-verification program counted as a technological protection measure, and so Static Control’s chips were illegal circumventions.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2016

The art instruction which the common school of the past generation offered was based on perspective, its problems, susceptible of never ending circumventions, being spread in an interminable maze before the student.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin