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It took 13 years from the Port Talbot bypass being commissioned in 1953 to opening in 1966 when it cut journey times between Bridgend and Swansea by about 20 minutes.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

To the shock of many staffers and lawmakers, they proposed at least a dozen grants that would bypass the normal open bidding process.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Gulf governments are pouring billions of dollars into new pipelines, rail corridors and energy storage hubs to bypass the strait, in what is set to become one of the most durable outcomes of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Both companies enable new data centers to bypass utility grids via their natural gas fuel cells and turbines, respectively.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Because of these things, we decided to bypass villages by walking through the nearby bushes.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

Two main bypasses already exist and have the capacity to get some 8.5 million barrels of oil per day out of the region while avoiding the strait.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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

This door bypasses the navy checkpoint and leads straight to the port.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

Paramount and others have criticized the states’ case because prosecutors bypassed the increasingly important streaming business as part of their market definition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Voters have continued to flood into his campaign events, including one on Sunday in which the audience offered enthusiastic support and bypassed the opportunity to ask him about the controversies of his past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

It would have bypassed the Brynglas Tunnels, which struggle to cope with the volume of traffic the M4 attracts at peak times.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

The conference bypassed the United Nations climate process altogether, reflecting a growing impatience with its failure to tackle fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 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

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 Chambers, William

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 Innes, A. Taylor

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Wilson, John Lyde

“In that sense, infrastructure bypassing Hormuz and storage capacity around the world would be crucial.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The move comes even as other Gulf states, unconvinced by the US security umbrella, have engaged with Iran, and despite Oman's rise as a regional logistics hub bypassing the strait.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

“Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in the post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

"Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5," the company said.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

You wash your hands, bypassing the paper towel dispenser, shaking the water off.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith