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
In such a case, judicial involvement would be to protect the will of the voters, not to serve as an end run around them.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2024
The company’s lawsuit thus amounts to an end run around the law.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 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
The plan amounted to a bureaucratic end run around Brown.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
