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
The research also relied on a world-first approach involving heart tissue collected from living patients during bypass surgery.
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
“Why don’t they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece ?” “Because I wouldn’t sell it to them.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
Forum Statement: Omits any mention of data manipulation, interference with global reports or governance bypasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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 Aman spokesperson said Walker bypassed the main entrance, ending up at staff access points instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Even a question on Kylian Mbappe's captaincy was bypassed: "The most important thing for him now is to rest, we'll have the chance to speak in September."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Safadi was referring to the 2021 defense agreement that allows U.S. forces unfettered access to 12 facilities in Jordan, including five air bases; the agreement was approved via royal decree and bypassed parliament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
I bypassed the customary comparing of kite-fighting scars and stood in line.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
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
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
Mahan flew Quds personnel to Syria during that country’s civil war and to Iraq by bypassing normal security procedures, the Treasury alleged in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
Opponents have repeatedly questioned the law's viability and raised concerns 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.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
She made it to the nearest trolley platform, bypassing the elevator and taking the winding staircase up to wait, then pulled a rope overhead.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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