CIRCUMVENTED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

circumvented

verb

past tense of circumvent

as in bypassed

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 avoided

to avoid by going around circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route

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as in traversed

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 circumvented The court ruled that lawmakers had circumvented anti-gerrymandering standards passed by voters when adopting the prior map. —

David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026 The court ruled that lawmakers had circumvented anti-gerrymandering standards passed by voters when adopting the prior map. —

ABC News, 4 May 2026 But the latest administrative checks, amid intensifying scrutiny, come after Italian media revealed internal emails that were framed as evidence that the Biennale organizers had circumvented sanctions against Russia to facilitate Russia’s participation. —

Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Search and rescue team members circumvented the gate by riding a dirt bike and were able to locate the injured man, officials said. —

Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 The leak caused consternation from department brass, Moers alleged, who were not happy that his commission had circumvented proper channels to receive emergency funding. —

Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 David Anders is the Wachtell Lipton attorney leading the NBA’s investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented the league’s salary cap rules to compensate Clippers star Kawhi Leonard. —

Janis Carr, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026 Nepal’s scores of community radio stations in 2005 circumvented an order from King Gyanendra prohibiting anything but music on the airwaves by singing the news in more than 20 languages. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026 Later interventions, like X letting users block Grok from editing their photos, are also easily circumvented. —

Robert Hart, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2026

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The town was dissolved around 1880, about a decade after the railroad notably bypassed it.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
But more than half the town’s population—roughly 5,900 people—bypassed variolation and fell sick.

— Tom Levenson, Time, 20 May 2026