bypass
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But challenger brand Light Helmets is using “guerrilla tactics” to bypass team gatekeepers, striking promotional deals with everyone from New Orleans Saints star Cam Jordan to a 13-year-old Alabama influencer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
These "pre-mortem" tissue samples came from consenting patients undergoing heart bypass procedures at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
According to the indictment, the state Constitution provides “a means for citizens to bypass the state legislature and enact statutes and constitutional amendments directly through the initiative process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Similarly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz will be “worthless” in two years as overland pipe routes bypass it completely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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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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
“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Permian production bypasses Cushing on its way to Gulf refineries and to export from the newly expanded Port of Corpus Christi through pipelines, which have also been expanded.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 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
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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We asked four successful entrepreneurs who bypassed a degree how they built their businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Paramount and others have criticized the states’ case because prosecutors bypassed the increasingly important streaming business as part of their market definition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Now that he wanted time to move as slowly as possible, it seemed to have sped up, and understanding was coming so fast it seemed to have bypassed thought.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
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
Forecasts for an especially strong El Niño, plus continued bypassing of the Suez Canal as conflict in the Mideast persists, could bump imports into Southern California up about 5%, Seroka said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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