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as in to bypass
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
employees who try to circumvent the company's dress code
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as in to avoid
to avoid by going around
circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route
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as in to traverse
to travel completely around
most casual joggers will be able to circumvent the reservoir without too much of a strain
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Recent Examples of circumvent
Threat actors using RedLine had heaped praise upon the malware for being able to circumvent Google Chrome’s password and cookie encryption mechanisms.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The Food and Drug Administration decided that 23andMe’s test and health reports about a person’s predisposition to various diseases circumvented the regulator.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Some attacks are even designed to circumvent network inspection and target browsers.
—Poornima Debolle, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The teens and their screens show how creators with bad intentions easily circumvent social platforms' rules banning accounts like this, and how the vicious algorithms seem to send the most harmful content to the most vulnerable.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The Food and Drug Administration decided that 23andMe’s test and health reports about a person’s predisposition to various diseases circumvented the regulator.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Some attacks are even designed to circumvent network inspection and target browsers.
—Poornima Debolle, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The teens and their screens show how creators with bad intentions easily circumvent social platforms' rules banning accounts like this, and how the vicious algorithms seem to send the most harmful content to the most vulnerable.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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The initiative amends the state penal code to allow prosecutors to bypass the $950 threshold that separates petty theft, a misdemeanor, from grand theft, a felony.Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Read more Coronavirus Walking Pneumonia: Voters Warned To Take Precautions At Polls These proteins are also used as targets by immune systems and vaccinations, so changes in their structure can allow the virus to bypass the body's defenses more easily.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Scott crashed into another vehicle while attempting to avoid the shots.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Last year, France proposed a ban on social media for those under 15, though users were able to avoid the ban with parental consent.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Over the last year and a half, more than 700,000 people have traversed this unforgiving slice of jungle that divides Colombia from Panama.Tirana Hassan, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Harris on Monday traversed Pennsylvania, which carries the prize of 19 electoral votes and is considered the most critical battleground state to win.Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group’s operations told Reuters this year.Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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El Monte police said that charges of kidnapping and felony evading would be submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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If the surface had holes, these curves circled around the holes forever, never taking an exit.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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With the busing, migrants are circled around inside Mexican territory in a merry-go-round strategy that forces them to repeatedly pay off immigration agents, kidnappers and smugglers.Emily Green, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2024
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Firefighters rescued one person who was trapped and assisted others in escaping the building.Doha Madani, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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But the new migrants were more visible than their predecessors, as many applied for asylum or entered through other legal pathways instead of trying to escape arrest at the border.Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
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Sprawling cities in the South and Southwest emerged seemingly overnight, while new suburbs encircled older metropolises in the North.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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Since the stinging defeat in the courts, at which details emerged of government security forces downplaying the Bundys’ legitimate concern for their own safety when federal sniper units encircled the family, Washington and its agencies let the Bundys graze at will and without charge.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Tech company CEOs who largely sat on the sidelines for the presidential election sent their congratulations Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump, ignoring Trump’s history of threats against some of them and joining their peer Elon Musk in welcoming Trump back to power.David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Those, contrary to the plan, can safely be ignored, and are.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Circumvent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumvent. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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