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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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"It's affected the town - people don't bother now, they bypass Castletown. You can't rely on the tourists and coaches coming because there's nothing for them."

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Saudi Arabia is trying to resume partial operations within days on the 750-mile pipeline, which allows exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, The Wall Street Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

But she’s so loaded, she doesn’t abide by existing train schedules and surprises them all by stopping a train that is supposed to bypass the town.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

The East-West pipeline was also the conduit for that bypass.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

It was about a year after that—he was sixteen—and he was taking the bypass through the tombwalk one evening when he heard a voice as hard and sharp as ax-fall.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.

From Salon May 24, 2026

She bypasses the cookware, flips through the pages.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Attacks last week shut down a crucial crude pipeline in Saudi Arabia that bypassed the Strait, stranding at least 2.5 million barrels a day from an already tight global oil market, analysts estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

"The sites we've currently explored are in south-west Ireland, but it's illogical to presume that early humans just bypassed Wexford, Waterford and Cork, and ploughed on west," said Nash.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Safadi was referring to the 2021 defense agreement that allows U.S. forces unfettered access to 12 facilities in Jordan, including five air bases; the agreement was approved via royal decree and bypassed parliament.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

And others that could be similar, if what Poole hinted at is true: that the one-day limit is only for newcomers, and can be somehow bypassed.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

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

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

Nobody should begrudge a fighter for accepting a life-changing world-title shot, but bypassing the traditional British, Commonwealth and European route removes learning fights.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

"Instead of bypassing retinal processing, we aimed to reactivate it right at the same level of the retinal circuit as the lost photoreceptor cells."

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Regional exports—including routes bypassing Hormuz—fell by 2.1 million barrels a day to 15 million barrels a day.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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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