sidestep

The payments to Leonard were facilitated through team sponsors, allowing the team to sidestep league rules about maximum compensation for players, the backbone of the NBA’s competitive structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

As exports plummet owing to a ban on U.S. wine and liquor, California lawmakers ask Quebec’s premier to sidestep the president, lift the prohibition and promote free trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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

To get to it, to redeem it, Franny had to shuffle across the floor through a quantity of newspapers and sidestep an empty paint bucket.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

But the film sidesteps the fact that Liam spent the mourning period criticising his brother for his failure to appear at charity shows supporting the survivors.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

But while the settlement sidesteps any admission of wrongdoing by the company, it does compel Meta to combat problems few parents knew existed, in terms far starker than those it has articulated before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Every time a leader avoids a hard truth, sidesteps a real tension, or makes disagreement feel risky, you pay a hefty price.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

Antoine Fuqua’s musical drama depicts the early life and stardom of Michael Jackson, brilliantly played his nephew Jaafar, in a film that sidesteps controversy in favor of pure entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The parrot sidesteps from one end of his perch to the other, and back again.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Asked whether he stood with backlash, Hilton sidestepped, emphasizing how much he himself loves Los Angeles and intends to "revive" it.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

For months, investors remained so fixated on earnings that AI stocks mostly sidestepped the pain felt by shares of small-capitalization companies and other more interest-rate-sensitive names.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

Zuffa Boxing chief Dana White largely sidestepped that question afterwards.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Some risks can be largely sidestepped: choosing not to build on an earthquake fault line, for example, or in flood plains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The horse sidestepped nervously, feeling the awkward load shifting from side to side on its back.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

It's a strategy that focuses on how apps are designed, not what is posted on them, essentially sidestepping the broad immunity internet sites enjoy in the US regarding content created by their users.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

I managed to hold it like that, balanced on the throttle, slithering and sidestepping, until I had to join the main straight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

But Terry Smith, sometimes called “the English Warren Buffett,” shocked his remaining fans this month by sidestepping that mantra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

SpaceX would like to make it a much bigger business in the future via its plans for orbital data centers, sidestepping the limitations of land and power which are posing increasing obstacles for terrestrial facilities.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Now I saw Miig, sidestepping between the first and second rows, his feet silent in their patched-up shoes.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline