bypass
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Moreover, longer-term trades, or beneficiaries of high oil prices, like rigs, oil service companies, bypass capacity, power and storage solutions are still in an upswing.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Russia and Germany built the first Nord Stream pipeline to bypass the networks running via Ukraine in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Long Beach Utilities rerouted the sewage flow with a bypass line and called in emergency contractor Ocean Blue to assist with spill cleanup efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The spectacular heist illustrates the ability of North Korean cybercriminals to bypass surveillance systems and land enormous hauls that underwrite Pyongyang’s growing nuclear program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It was about a year after that—he was sixteen—and he was taking the bypass through the tombwalk one evening when he heard a voice as hard and sharp as ax-fall.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Both benchmarks had pared gains Monday after Saudi Arabia resumed loading vessels at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via its East-West pipeline, a key export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, the kingdom’s only export route that bypasses Hormuz, went offline Thursday due to drones launched from Iraq.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
I saw her across the bay, from the great road that bypasses Sausalito and enters the Golden Gate Bridge.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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The race, which ratcheted up when Pelosi bypassed Wiener to endorse Chan in May, just before the June primary, had divided the Democratic Party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The Bonn researchers instead bypassed the pluripotent stage entirely.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Last month it emerged that a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government health statistics website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools, essentially AI bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, "bypassed" security controls of some websites.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
All the way upstairs they went, and when they got to the top, Franz bypassed the bedrooms, snuffled urgently, and pawed the door that led into the building hallway.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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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 John Lyde Wilson
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
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
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
"It allows for operations at very low altitudes -- it is controlled by a signal from space, bypassing the radio horizon and the Earth's curvature -- factors that otherwise limit ground-based remote control signals."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
On its own, that may read like spiritual bypassing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
Until now, the war’s battles had flowed around Verdun, bypassing the city and its fortress.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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