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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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Now, with its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by attacks, the world’s oil kingpin is having to return to the waterway it was trying to avoid in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The French military and Directorate General for Armament want to tap into Renault's mass-production capabilities to bypass traditional, slower defence supply chains.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Though that’s excluding “time-to-power” solutions, like off-grid power, which bypass grid-connection delays.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Armstrong didn’t hesitate to bypass congressional staff or speak sharply to senators—including ones who were ultimately trying to help him pass the Clarity Act, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

There was no doubt that Benjamin would receive his Assignment to that field and would probably be permitted to bypass most of the training.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

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

But some of the pollution bypasses the plants and pours directly into the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

Forum Statement: Omits any mention of data manipulation, interference with global reports or governance bypasses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

This door bypasses the navy checkpoint and leads straight to the port.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

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

A swarm of AI agents bypassed internal limits, created their own message board, and cooperated to hack another AI firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

A recent video showed Marc Screeton, from Manchester, being heckled as he bypassed the line, saying: "Imagine queuing on a mountain? No chance."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

If His Excellency had not bypassed Madu, perhaps she would be less critical.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

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

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

“A couple coaches just walk by,” he said of recruiters showing up at practices and bypassing him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

For such a driver, says Dr. Greenfield, the act of picking up the device becomes primitive, bypassing higher- level thinking.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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