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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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“This is a reminder that bypass channels aren’t infallible,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank.

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

"It's affected the town - people don't bother now, they bypass Castletown. You can't rely on the tourists and coaches coming because there's nothing for them."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Always try to find a rest stop, an exit, or a bypass road.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

You don’t want a low-quality battery that might catch fire, or a compromised or modified circuit board that bypasses normal security guards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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

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

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

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

"If that gets bypassed, then of course local residents are going to worry that they're getting all of the pain and none of the benefit."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In a blog post, external, the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

We asked four successful entrepreneurs who bypassed a degree how they built their businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

She bypassed the gallery and headed instead to the kitchen to talk to Great Ellen, whom she asked, in strict confidence, if it were possible to strengthen her lull.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

Without careful guardrails in place, children tend to use the platforms as shortcuts to answers, bypassing the messy, difficult cognitive processes that are essential for learning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

"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

You wash your hands, bypassing the paper towel dispenser, shaking the water off.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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