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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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Rubio will meet senior Indian officials, but will bypass the Indian capital during the trip in the coming week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

At least another 9,000 are hosting guests for 30 days or longer, allowing them to bypass many of the city’s regulations that apply to shorter stays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

He "offered to bypass the cells", and he was told this would be a temporary fix.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But some command codes require only a last name, and that approach can bypass IRS detection, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He’s the one person in the universe allowed to bypass all of our security.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

His model bypasses traditional philanthropy routing through organizations and causes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“Protecting blue-collar workers bypasses the high-stress, physically demanding pink- and light-blue-collar jobs,” said Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics and policy analysis at the New School in New York City and an expert on retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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

But Nick bypasses everything comfortable, opting instead for the floor, where he crosses his legs and starts tuning his guitar.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

The Bonn researchers instead bypassed the pluripotent stage entirely.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

It could export oil through a pipeline that bypassed the blocked Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

He laughed, but didn’t offer to explain why he’d bypassed the library.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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

She’s skeptical of bypassing the state environmental law, but sees the project as perhaps the best bet to address the railroad’s legacy of pollution and restore fish habitat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"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

And with that — bypassing the building health and safety requirements — we established the ProPublica-Mountain State Spotlight Curiosity Academy.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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

I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher


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