end-run
Example Sentences
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You’ve said you started dancing on TikTok as a kind of end run around the gatekeepers of show business.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
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 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.
