bypass
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"It's affected the town - people don't bother now, they bypass Castletown. You can't rely on the tourists and coaches coming because there's nothing for them."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Saudi Arabia is trying to resume partial operations within days on the 750-mile pipeline, which allows exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The East-West pipeline was also the conduit for that bypass.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The research also relied on a world-first approach involving heart tissue collected from living patients during bypass surgery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Eventually I had to come out of the tree-hidden roads and do my best to bypass the cities.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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
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
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
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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However, Shao sees OpenAI’s new ad integration as evidence that “Shopify may be becoming more deeply embedded in agentic commerce rather than being bypassed by it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Attacks last week shut down a crucial crude pipeline in Saudi Arabia that bypassed the Strait, stranding at least 2.5 million barrels a day from an already tight global oil market, analysts estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A recent video showed Marc Screeton, from Manchester, being heckled as he bypassed the line, saying: "Imagine queuing on a mountain? No chance."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
Her disdain did not convince Richard; it began when Madu complained that His Excellency had bypassed him and made his junior a commanding officer.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
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
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
Without careful guardrails in place, children tend to use the platforms as shortcuts to answers, bypassing the messy, difficult cognitive processes that are essential for learning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nobody should begrudge a fighter for accepting a life-changing world-title shot, but bypassing the traditional British, Commonwealth and European route removes learning fights.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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
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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