bypass
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"China's domestic lithography advances bypass Western supply chains entirely, hitting equipment makers hardest," Angela Harmantas at Proactive Investors wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The loophole allowed China’s superrich to bypass strict capital controls and avoid government oversight of their wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Citizenship and Immigration Services allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Almost 15 years ago, Canada agreed to fully pay for the bridge's construction to bypass US political resistance and get the project, seen as necessary infrastructure to fix a trade bottleneck, moving.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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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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
Forum Statement: Omits any mention of data manipulation, interference with global reports or governance bypasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
The option eliminates a controversial monorail proposal through the Sepulveda Pass and bypasses a stop at the Getty Center, which had once been under consideration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
But Nick bypasses everything comfortable, opting instead for the floor, where he crosses his legs and starts tuning his guitar.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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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
The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
However, poorer countries have largely been bypassed by that boom, attracting only 10% of the total invested in strategic sectors, and much of that focused on extracting natural resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Now that he wanted time to move as slowly as possible, it seemed to have sped up, and understanding was coming so fast it seemed to have bypassed thought.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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 Chambers, William
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 Wilson, John Lyde
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 Innes, A. Taylor
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
But concerns have been raised over privacy, the efficacy of age-verification tools, the risks of young people bypassing them, and how quickly the ban has been designed and brought in, Agence France Presse reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Now, though, more hyperscalers are seeking to hook their data centers to off-grid power, bypassing lengthy wait times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The UAE has already said it will fast-track construction of a new oil pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz by reaching the port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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