bypass
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He "offered to bypass the cells", and he was told this would be a temporary fix.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The demand for shuttle runs exploded last month after drone attacks shut Saudi Arabia’s bypass East-West pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
With its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by the attacks, Aramco began loading more oil onto tankers in the Persian Gulf and then taking its chances sending them through Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Herr Ribben- trop's been able virtually to bypass our foreign office altogether.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had restarted its East-West pipeline after it was attacked earlier this month, restoring an alternative route for crude exports that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Protecting blue-collar workers bypasses the high-stress, physically demanding pink- and light-blue-collar jobs,” said Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics and policy analysis at the New School in New York City and an expert on retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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
This door bypasses the navy checkpoint and leads straight to the port.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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The bots have, for example, created fake email addresses, bypassed website rate limits, which cap how frequently a site will accept requests, and falsely claimed not to be bots, AI security researchers have found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
Most of the bypassed oil went through the East-West pipeline, which played a bigger role in tamping down crude prices than the IEA’s emergency stock release, or the collapse in Chinese oil demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He turned professional with limited amateur experience, bypassed the traditional British, Commonwealth and European title path and built much of his reputation fighting against ageing former champions.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He laughed, but didn’t offer to explain why he’d bypassed the library.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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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
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
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
On its own, that may read like spiritual bypassing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 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
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter-turned-X helped spark a trend of “going direct” or bypassing traditional media and marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
My intention was to creep across the neck of Ontario, bypassing not only Erie but Cleveland and Toledo.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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