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bypass

[bahy-pas, -pahs] / ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs /


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But some command codes require only a last name, and that approach can bypass IRS detection, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Shipments via Hormuz and bypass routes were delivering just under 80% of their prewar regional flows as of last week, according to tracker Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

With its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by the attacks, Aramco began loading more oil onto tankers in the Persian Gulf and then taking its chances sending them through Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

He told me how people knocked holes in the walls of their homes so they could bypass the dangerous streets and would move down the block from hole to hole.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, the kingdom’s only export route that bypasses Hormuz, went offline Thursday due to drones launched from Iraq.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

It forced Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, and other major Gulf producers such as the United Arab Emirates to reroute crude through pipelines and alternative ports that bypassed the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

OpenAI has said it has notified dozens of entities of instances in which its models bypassed security controls or negatively affected websites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Law-enforcement searches will require a case number in order to conduct a search by the end of the year, although the system can be bypassed in an emergency, Flock said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He turned professional with limited amateur experience, bypassed the traditional British, Commonwealth and European title path and built much of his reputation fighting against ageing former champions.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

In 1990, Peralta was in the vanguard of Mexican immigrants who bypassed the traditional barrios in border states to work in far-flung cities like Denver and New York.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

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

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

On its own, that may read like spiritual bypassing.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

Mahan flew Quds personnel to Syria during that country’s civil war and to Iraq by bypassing normal security procedures, the Treasury alleged in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

For such a driver, says Dr. Greenfield, the act of picking up the device becomes primitive, bypassing higher- level thinking.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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