bypass
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Similarly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz will be “worthless” in two years as overland pipe routes bypass it completely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Customers fumed that they were unable to bypass chatbots and reach a human being for help.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Comfort in possession allowed Spurs to bypass Newcastle press.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Although some under-16 accounts were initially deleted, Teachman said, children figured out ways to bypass age-verification checks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Why don’t they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece ?” “Because I wouldn’t sell it to them.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Saudi Arabia increased security on its Red Sea pipeline and the United Arab Emirates did the same on a pipeline that bypasses Hormuz to Fujairah, a port on the Gulf of Oman, the officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
That pipeline carries more than a million barrels of oil a day and provides Europe with a vital supply route that bypasses both Russian and Iranian territory.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
The blood bypasses my face and rushes up into my scalp.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Safadi was referring to the 2021 defense agreement that allows U.S. forces unfettered access to 12 facilities in Jordan, including five air bases; the agreement was approved via royal decree and bypassed parliament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Even a question on Kylian Mbappe's captaincy was bypassed: "The most important thing for him now is to rest, we'll have the chance to speak in September."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
This prevented the force fields from being bypassed by any magical means.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
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
"Instead of bypassing retinal processing, we aimed to reactivate it right at the same level of the retinal circuit as the lost photoreceptor cells."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
They’re becoming more tempting to many because they give buyers access to otherwise unavailable seats, bypassing ticket draw lotteries like the one that happened in April and another that wraps up Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Contempt resolutions generally would go through the full Senate, and bypassing that route would open fresh legal and political questions for President Donald Trump's administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Since the Iran war began, the kingdom has ramped up exports across the country to its Red Sea coast, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, and shipped them through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to Asian customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
For such a driver, says Dr. Greenfield, the act of picking up the device becomes primitive, bypassing higher- level thinking.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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