bypass
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Iran has relied on digital dollars issued by one of the world’s most profitable cryptocurrency companies to bypass a U.S. sanctions dragnet, said a report that Senate Democrats released Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
With its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by the attacks, Aramco began loading more oil onto tankers in the Persian Gulf and then taking its chances sending them through Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“This is a reminder that bypass channels aren’t infallible. All of the options have their issues and costs, with tanker rates and insurance rising along with physical risk.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Worse yet, all of these proximate explanations bypass the question of the ultimate factors behind them.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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That technically bypasses the electric grid regular customers use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, the kingdom’s only export route that bypasses Hormuz, went offline Thursday due to drones launched from Iraq.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Around 40% of those exports bypassed the Strait of Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, with 23% loading outside the strait along the Gulf of Oman and another 17% leaving through the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The bots have, for example, created fake email addresses, bypassed website rate limits, which cap how frequently a site will accept requests, and falsely claimed not to be bots, AI security researchers have found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
"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
She bypassed the gallery and headed instead to the kitchen to talk to Great Ellen, whom she asked, in strict confidence, if it were possible to strengthen her lull.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
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
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
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
And with that — bypassing the building health and safety requirements — we established the ProPublica-Mountain State Spotlight Curiosity Academy.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.
From MarketWatch ● 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
Light Helmets is using endorsement deals and bypassing team equipment managers to market its lightweight football helmets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He had inched him up through back alleys and smaller races, bypassing the nationally spotlighted races in favor of slow cultivation and parochial seclusion.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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