bypass
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“There’s no special reason they should be allowed to bypass the standard clinical trial system just because there’s a peptide fad driven by wellness influencers and telehealth firms.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Bottom line for the market: Gulf supply remains severely constrained, Saudi’s bypass is no longer the full solution it looked like in March, and the structural tightness is still very much intact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"They are objective-driven, set their own sub-goals, adapt in real time to bypass defences, and operate with a machine-speed persistence that can overwhelm manual operations," the paper reads.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"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 three Witchlings looked around for a way to bypass the Shroudeds and still follow the prints, but they were bordered by Oso Mountain on one side and a marsh on the other.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
Daraxonrasib bypasses that problem by acting as a molecular glue, binding to a separate protein inside the cell and using the combined surface to seize RAS directly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
That pipeline carries more than a million barrels of oil a day and provides Europe with a vital supply route that bypasses both Russian and Iranian territory.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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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Locke educators say evaluators have bypassed a crucial element: academic growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
"She shook the hand of the players on my right, bypassed me, then shook the hand of everyone else," he says.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
By April 15, officials announced they had locked in 273 million barrels of crude and 2.1 million tons of naphtha through year-end on routes that bypassed Hormuz.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The conference bypassed the United Nations climate process altogether, reflecting a growing impatience with its failure to tackle fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Ridgeway bypassed the courthouse when needed, but not often.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
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
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
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
Contempt resolutions generally would go through the full Senate, and bypassing that route would open fresh legal and political questions for President Donald Trump's administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Starting Thursday morning, more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, either by bypassing fences on land or attempting to swim along the coast.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Consumers bypassing or canceling their cable subscriptions are cutting into the fees stations receive from pay TV providers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Feral asked, bypassing his spoon in favor of tipping back his bowl and drinking from it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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