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circumvent

[sur-kuhm-vent, sur-kuhm-vent] / ˌsɜr kəmˈvɛnt, ˈsɜr kəmˌvɛnt /


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There are also concerns it could be too easy to circumvent checks in the fledgling initiatives, and pass off AI-produced books as human-written.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, some safeguards were easy to turn off or circumvent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centred around claims that they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent football's financial rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

But I’d never been to Mbandaka, had no idea how far I’d have to go out of my way to circumvent it.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Light Helmets circumvents locker-room gatekeepers and makes endorsement deals in a bid for visibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But Carvajal-Muñoz’s attorneys are testing a legal theory that circumvents these roadblocks by suing officers under state law for violations of his constitutional rights.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

“From Internet memes to late-night comedians, from cartoons to the plays and poems as old as organized government itself — Political Satire circumvents traditional gatekeepers & helps hold those in power accountable,” he continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

Tebas said that the complaint centres on his belief that "City have a structure that circumvents the rules" including a group of companies in the United Arab Emirates outside the City Football Group.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

In other words, Manchester City's owners circumvented the league's financial regulations over a number of years by pumping money into the club that should not have been recorded as sponsorship income.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

In July, Open AI models circumvented human controls placed on them and hacked into Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI models.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Those, however, were much more quotidian in nature—slices of pie, humble shoes—and circumvented the traditional gallery-to-collector pipeline, with Oldenburg thumbing his nose at the commercialized art establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Here is the NBA’s investigative findings of allegations the Los Angeles Clippers the team circumvented the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The plot circumvented, Washkar went to work eliminating any remaining objections to his accession.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Proven incidents of teams circumventing the salary cap are few, with a violation by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2000 the most egregious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Since the start of the year, nine shadow fleet tankers suspected of circumventing sanctions have been seized around the EU.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

But circumventing the professionals can trigger a money-sucking spiral, says Richard Fasulo, a technician based in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who is known on social media as Check Engine Chuck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

This spring, 12 attorneys general argued that circumventing standard environmental reviews would put communities at risk, among other things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

He was the kind of man who worked hard, enjoyed circumventing risks, and avoided the limelight.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols


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