sidestep
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The device features a privacy recording light to notify wearers when it’s recording, but modifications available all over the internet allow users to sidestep it.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Even if disrupted flows through both straits fall another 4 million barrels a day from current levels, the market can sidestep an acute shortage as long as “demand stays close to today’s depressed levels.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Much of the craze has centered around the models' ability to sidestep structural constraints, including strict historic-preservation rules in many European cities that restrict exterior-wall modifications such as drilling for external AC units.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Although the evaluators cited reasons to sidestep the Locke data, they never said it was wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
She tried to sidestep, as she’d told me to do, but the monster had learned his lesson.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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But thanks to Reid’s indefatigable charisma, this vampire sidesteps the resentment millions hold for real-life bloodsuckers by inviting us behind the velvet curtain.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
When a leader consistently sidesteps tension and doesn’t model what it looks like to receive a hard truth, the team reads the signal: Disagreement is not safe here.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
It sidesteps what people at my age know: that as time goes by, we lose many of the connections that once helped energize our younger selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
As long as the U.S. economy sidesteps recession, the card companies can see the sales and earnings growth come in.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
Her frown deepens as she sidesteps open comic books and half-eaten granola bars.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Bonta and the other state attorneys sidestepped the political landscape in making their lawsuit arguments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Pichai largely sidestepped the issue of AI in his remarks, though he appeared to make light of the expected protests.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The plaintiffs’ lawyers in the Los Angeles case sidestepped Section 230 by arguing that the way the platforms themselves were designed was harmful and intentionally so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Longboard’s clients have also sidestepped the recent software slump — Wilcox says they’ve been underweight the sector since 2022.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026
Sometimes he got a piece of them, but most of the time they just sidestepped him like toreadors or pushed him away as though he was a bothersome younger cousin.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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Stocktwits’ Howard Lindzon talks to MarketWatch about sidestepping a chip selloff, where he sees opportunity and the “degenerate economy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Cybersecurity experts say there’s more at risk than just sidestepping company policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Cerebras’ unusually large artificial-intelligence chips excel at running models at speed, while also sidestepping some of the networking and packaging required for connecting thousands of high-end processors from Nvidia or other chip makers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
“This is an industrial area, and there’s plenty of stuff around to catch fire,” he said, sidestepping a dribble of oily water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
She had learned her patience through years of sidestepping migraine.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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