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Entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire are circumventing high retail rents and government bureaucracy to start businesses online, resulting in a thriving informal digital economy.

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Diamandis apparently believed that testing could be an infallible way to circumvent these evidence-based precautions.

He wasn’t fooled by Wall Street’s attempt to circumvent the new rules on derivatives, the financial sidebets that exacerbated the 2008 crisis.

This year, the news organizations have reported on the various ways in which coastal homeowners have used loopholes to circumvent Hawaii’s environmental laws, winning exemptions to protect their properties at the expense of the state’s beaches.

Turks have simply circumvented the ban and intensified their attacks on his government.

In business the subtle art of his absorbing rapacity circumvented any attempt to lessen his profits by the shaving of a copper.

To the noble woman do thou no further harm, though thou the royal bride with guiles hast circumvented.

But even these precautions were circumvented by sharpers who advertised their wretched wares as marked-down Ingersolls.

Two mere youths had circumvented the legal and military sagacity of the sages of Perth.

For these love to consult, the other (fearing to be circumvented,) to strike first.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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