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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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Russia and Germany built the first Nord Stream pipeline to bypass the networks running via Ukraine in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The spectacular heist illustrates the ability of North Korean cybercriminals to bypass surveillance systems and land enormous hauls that underwrite Pyongyang’s growing nuclear program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Johnson also shared that he’s been dealing with “heart issues” for almost two years, including undergoing bypass surgery two months ago, and that it was a “contributing factor” in his decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

It was as if because of their train meeting years ago, they could bypass several steps, ignore several unknowns, and slide into an immediate intimacy.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That technically bypasses the electric grid regular customers use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, the kingdom’s only export route that bypasses Hormuz, went offline Thursday due to drones launched from Iraq.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

I saw her across the bay, from the great road that bypasses Sausalito and enters the Golden Gate Bridge.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Banks were under its sway, and cities that didn’t meet its demands could be bypassed by new rail lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

It has also acknowledged that "the risk of circumvention cannot be entirely eliminated", and some children would succeed in bypassing the age checks.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

Attacks on the crucial Saudi pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz this week raised fresh supply concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Very rarely, a royal will use her beauty tokens for her child, bypassing the nursery chamber at La Maison. It's quite unusual, but it happens."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton


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