end-run
Example Sentences
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Who made an audacious end run around protocol to give the president some really bad news?
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
The best way to navigate the broken system is to make an end run around the ATS gatekeepers to find a back door into the company by connecting with a human who works there.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025
But the proposal garnered fierce early opposition from some local leaders, concerned the group was making an end run around the planning process, as well as environmental groups concerned about the loss of natural habitat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
The states involved in the case argued that the Navajo Nation was attempting to make an end run around a Supreme Court decree that divvied up water in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023
My plan was to follow this catwalk to a prominent rock prow in the center of the wall and thereby execute an end run around the ugly, avalanche-swept lower half of the face.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
