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
Arizona, Nevada and California contend the Navajo Nation is making an end run around another Supreme Court case that divvied up water in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 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.
