1
as in circumvents
to avoid by going around
we can bypass the traffic jam if we take this other road
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2
as in ignores
to fail to give proper attention to
a serious news event that was bypassed by the mainstream media so that they could concentrate on celebrity gossip
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as in avoids
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
you can bypass the graduation requirements if you do enough extra credit
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Recent Examples of bypasses
Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
This bypasses the current path of diagnosis, where symptoms are evaluated and a host of blood tests are performed to rule out other conditions such as thyroid problems or anemia.
—New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
The expansion includes a new three-lane roadway that bypasses North Harbor Drive and delivers drivers to Terminals 1 and 2 as well as parking garages.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
This type of prompt injection bypasses human awareness and targets the AI's decision-making directly.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
That bypasses the strained national grid entirely, eliminating transmission bottlenecks.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That offering bypasses insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, allowing patients to directly purchase Zepbound and some of Eli Lilly’s other drugs from the company.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
Trump’s approach, however, bypasses local consent, prompting lawsuits from Illinois and Oregon officials who argue the move is unconstitutional and escalates tensions unnecessarily.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
This bypasses the current path of diagnosis, where symptoms are evaluated and a host of blood tests are performed to rule out other conditions such as thyroid problems or anemia.
—New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
The expansion includes a new three-lane roadway that bypasses North Harbor Drive and delivers drivers to Terminals 1 and 2 as well as parking garages.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
This type of prompt injection bypasses human awareness and targets the AI's decision-making directly.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
That bypasses the strained national grid entirely, eliminating transmission bottlenecks.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That offering bypasses insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, allowing patients to directly purchase Zepbound and some of Eli Lilly’s other drugs from the company.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bypasses
Verb
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This gambit circumvents the notorious way that measurements destroy quantumness.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Oct. 2025
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But the Free Speech Coalition said companies might still be liable if a user in a state requiring age verification circumvents geographic targeting with a VPN.—
Jasmine Mithani,
Them.,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And anybody who ignores these issues does so at their peril.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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By replacing natural gas with the solar and battery system, the oil company avoids 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually while also lowering costs, according to the battery startup’s founder and Chief Innovation Officer John O’Donnell.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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And by not openly identifying with MAHA, Polis avoids alienating himself from Colorado’s Democratic voters.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Horn and Jackson traded highlights, with Horn collecting two acrobatics interceptions off Taylor, and Jackson breaking up a pair of crucial passes.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Oct. 2025
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Washington scored the next 27 points, including a John Riggins touchdown run and pair of Joe Theismann scoring passes, to claim the victory.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Unfortunately, Bradley forgets a little thing called search history.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
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Additional humor comes from a very broad Farmiga, but the series forgets that Barbara exists for long stretches and rarely benefits from her presence.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Like the Chinese government and most of its people, the movie evades mentions of the mass casualties after the pandemic restrictions were removed, therefore foregoing an opportunity to reflect on whether the deaths were preventable and what lessons might be learned.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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For now, love evades understanding—which means that finding someone will remain, much of the time, a pain in the ass.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Investigators also seized computers, USB drives, and other electronic devices from both locations.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Oct. 2025
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There once had been a lot of questions about the ability of his predecessor, Brady Cook, to lead late-game drives.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Extra cholesterol could get in the way of that by contributing to the formation of waxy plaques in your arteries, which can slow blood flow to your heart, Srijana Maharjan, MD, the lead author of the study and an internal medicine resident at Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh, tells SELF.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
17 Oct. 2025
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The innovation could pave the way for medical tools that move through the body’s arteries or inspection devices that crawl into complex machinery.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Bypasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bypasses. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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