end-run
Example Sentences
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Mark Zuckerberg has failed to end-run the iPhone more than once, including his recent attempt to make an alternate tech ecosystem called the Metaverse, renaming and reorganizing his company around the idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Justice Department tried an end-run by transferring the case to its Public Integrity Section.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2025
Chinese officials, she said, “wake up trying to figure out how to do an end-run around our export controls.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
But the move triggered outrage among striking writers, who condemned the move as an end-run around the WGA negotiating committee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
If there were one thing Thackeray would like to have, it would be an effective legal end-run through this new fragmentation minefield.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
