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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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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

Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, Contango’s chief executive, said the company is designing the project to avoid environmental risks and bypass key tourist areas, such as brown-bear viewing sites.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

While the testing is voluntary, industry executives have said it would be risky to bypass the government review, particularly if there were safety concerns raised after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

I bypass the nurse and climb the stairs to the top floor.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

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

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

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

The option eliminates a controversial monorail proposal through the Sepulveda Pass and bypasses a stop at the Getty Center, which had once been under consideration.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

But Nick bypasses everything comfortable, opting instead for the floor, where he crosses his legs and starts tuning his guitar.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

We asked four successful entrepreneurs who bypassed a degree how they built their businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Paramount and others have criticized the states’ case because prosecutors bypassed the increasingly important streaming business as part of their market definition.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

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

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

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

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

They’re becoming more tempting to many because they give buyers access to otherwise unavailable seats, bypassing ticket draw lotteries like the one that happened in April and another that wraps up Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 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

Saudi Arabia has kept crude exports flowing by sending more oil west across the kingdom through Aramco’s East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Starting Thursday morning, more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, either by bypassing fences on land or attempting to swim along the coast.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher




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