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That’s especially true for Saudi Arabia, which turned to its East-West pipeline and exports through the Red Sea to sidestep the trouble in Hormuz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

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 protections include additional training to refuse requests to perform malicious actions or fall victim to jailbreak prompts to sidestep those limits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Expect him to sidestep such tricky questions and instead talk up the importance of building relationships and respecting the Good Friday Agreement.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

I sidestep a group of loud-talking women outside the Luxe Beauty Parlor, and a tired old man with round shoulders.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

But local environmental campaigners say it sidesteps the "elephant in the room" of Turkey's ongoing reliance on coal and obscures the fact it has effectively become "Europe's dumping ground" for plastic waste.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

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

Over time her work became more personal, leaning in to Afrocentric mysticism and her distinctive voice, which sidesteps gospel projection in favor of intimate and playful phrasing that recalls Billie Holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Roza edged away from the fireplace, from the horrible painting over it, like an animal sidesteps a snake.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

Shaw has sidestepped concerns about immigration agents targeting schools as an issue outside of a school district’s jurisdiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

As the boar rushed me, I uncapped my pen and sidestepped.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

The model sought access to a health statistics portal in June, sidestepping restrictions to breach a section hosting private files.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

One major topic detailed in the filing was executives’ thoughts on sidestepping the paywalls many publishers have in place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The dollar was also hit by the Fed chairman sidestepping questions about how he intends to achieve the 2% inflation target, Commerzbank’s Michael Pfister said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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

Grover wagged his spotted tail, lifted his flat head and, sidestepping the newspaper, went xu-xu again.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen