circumvent

Example Sentences

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Lecornu has vowed not to use special constitutional powers to circumvent parliament to pass a budget.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, for some models, the time it took for experts to persuade systems to circumvent safeguards had increased forty-fold in just six months.

From BBC

But the group has become adept at shape-shifting to circumvent the crackdown, said Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that tracks extremist online content.

From The Wall Street Journal

He instead pointed to a “razor thin margin” in the chamber, which he says allows a few defectors to circumvent leadership.

From Los Angeles Times

The indictment alleges that Mindful served as a “reskin” of Done in order to circumvent pharmacies that had blocked prescriptions by Done-affiliated clinicians.

From The Wall Street Journal