circumvented

past tense of circumvent

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of circumvented The league could void the Clippers-Leonard contract and order the forfeiture of first-round picks, a penalty experienced by the Minnesota Timberwolves when they were found to have circumvented the cap to sign Joe Smith. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Had to wrap their minds around the bombshell from podcaster/investigative reporter Pablo Torre laying out allegations that team owner Steve Ballmer might have circumvented NBA salary cap rules by funding a $28 million no-show endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard. Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025 An old Los Angeles Clippers tweet has resurfaced and gone viral following Pablo Torre's report that Kawhi Leonard and owner Steve Ballmer reportedly circumvented the NBA's salary cap. Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025 Viridis circumvented the rules. Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 20 Aug. 2025 This approach treated serious concerns about non-consensual sexualized imagery as a technical challenge to be cleverly circumvented rather than establishing ethical foul lines. Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025 This is often circumvented by committees such as the NRSC, which can take in up to $578,200 per person per election. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024 In all of these scenarios, the tax liability can be circumvented by moving that position to a DAF. Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvented
Verb
  • Kiko mostly bypassed the Hawaiian islands with its fiercest winds, as so many storms have before, and will instead fade off into the Pacific Ocean over the vast western end of the island chain that remains a mystery to many.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Or will legacy systems and mindsets slow them down to the point at which they are bypassed by upstarts?
    Chris Perry, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since taking office, Kennedy has mostly avoided even rhetorically linking specific environmental exposures to health concerns.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, Iryna’s closest Ukrainian relatives have largely avoided the media since her death, due perhaps in part to a language barrier, but mainly because this combination of fresh horror and grief is too intense.
    Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Pynchon traversed California far and wide in his youth.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Much of the rest of the hike was dry and traversed gentle gravel bars or smooth limestone expanses, skirting the edges of grassy bluffs and rocky cliffs.
    Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In Milwaukee, Kellner said that around 33% of bus riders have evaded paying fares in 2025 but that the agency has identified a few cost-neutral strategies targeted at reducing fare evasion down to 30% by September 2026, the same rate of evasion busses saw in 2024.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The big plays evaded the Eagles both through the air and on the ground.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Quasi-moons differ from temporary mini-moons that occasionally orbit Earth such as 2024 PT5, which circled the planet for two months in 2024 and could be an ancient fragment that was blasted off of our primary moon.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Pole dancers circled installations for night-long performances that wrapped around the venue interior.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The evening was slightly chaotic and quickly unsynchronized as the first dinner group, which included Sunisa Lee, Fabolous and more, ignored initial invitations to sit in lieu of sunset views of the East River from the 63rd floor balcony.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Mendoza ignored what her contract said.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By Thursday morning, the fire crew successfully encircled the entire perimeter of the fire in control lines.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington, stands just a few minutes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a blocky concrete tower encircled by chain-link fencing and razor wire.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Having escaped disaster and gauged the full extent of American self-deterrence, Putin began putting pressure on Ukraine’s neighbors and suppliers.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One snake got tear-gassed by police, then shot at five times, and still escaped—only to finally meet its match with a garden hoe (obviously).
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025

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