bypass
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The East-West pipeline was also the conduit for that bypass.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
These "pre-mortem" tissue samples came from consenting patients undergoing heart bypass procedures at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
According to the indictment, the state Constitution provides “a means for citizens to bypass the state legislature and enact statutes and constitutional amendments directly through the initiative process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
In Saxony-Anhalt, it is no longer about creating cracks in the firewall but rather trying to bypass it altogether.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He’s the one person in the universe allowed to bypass all of our security.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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But some of the pollution bypasses the plants and pours directly into the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
You don’t want a low-quality battery that might catch fire, or a compromised or modified circuit board that bypasses normal security guards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
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
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
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A swarm of AI agents bypassed internal limits, created their own message board, and cooperated to hack another AI firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The ChatGPT-maker said it was adding new measures after its AI agents bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
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
And others that could be similar, if what Poole hinted at is true: that the one-day limit is only for newcomers, and can be somehow bypassed.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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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
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
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
Restaurant associations allege the official has been bypassing a statutory process, while courts have termed some of his actions "high-handed".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
"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
“A couple coaches just walk by,” he said of recruiters showing up at practices and bypassing him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now as more Americans rethink the value of college, the idea of bypassing a degree is gaining luster among a new set of founders, our colleagues Chip Cutter and Allison Pohle report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Until now, the war’s battles had flowed around Verdun, bypassing the city and its fortress.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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