bypass
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The developer was on track to bypass the city’s normal discretionary review process by using Assembly Bill 2011, a newly revised state law that forces the city to approve such projects outright, Blumenfield said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The crackdown is a signal "to its own tech leaders, more than to anybody else, that attempts to bypass national regulation will not be tolerated," Chang continued.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Crypto is the other main tool that A7 uses, allowing it to bypass banks entirely, researchers say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“There’s no special reason they should be allowed to bypass the standard clinical trial system just because there’s a peptide fad driven by wellness influencers and telehealth firms.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Worse yet, all of these proximate explanations bypass the question of the ultimate factors behind them.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Permian production bypasses Cushing on its way to Gulf refineries and to export from the newly expanded Port of Corpus Christi through pipelines, which have also been expanded.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 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
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
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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Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Both agreements bypassed the necessary parliamentary approvals, said Charles Kanjama, president of the Law Society of Kenya, which was part of lawsuits against both deals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Locke educators say evaluators have bypassed a crucial element: academic growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
We bypassed the elevator, moving quickly down a cramped stairwell.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
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'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
“A couple coaches just walk by,” he said of recruiters showing up at practices and bypassing him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The FT also reported that a member of staff at Gloucestershire Police was dismissed after bypassing safeguards to use an AI chatbot for police-related work "on numerous occasions".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Contempt resolutions generally would go through the full Senate, and bypassing that route would open fresh legal and political questions for President Donald Trump's administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The filing claims that by the next week, Storonsky’s team had already arranged to buy the boat directly from Dovigi, bypassing the broker entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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