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 men’s pro basketball league found that his Los Angeles Clippers illegally circumvented its salary cap by funneling millions of dollars, off the books, to star player Kawhi Leonard. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 Aspiration, Boingo, Daktronics and Lockton Insurance — that the NBA believed circumvented its salary cap. — David Aldridge, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Now Nightmare Eclipse claims to have effectively circumvented the company’s patch through ShieldBreak by apparently leveraging a different method. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026 Steve Ballmer, the team’s owner, invested $60 million into Aspiration, triggering allegations that the payment to Leonard circumvented the NBA salary cap. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 Capital controls were not being circumvented, instead they were being repriced. — Alice Liu, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Kawhi Leonard’s trade to the Toronto Raptors is on hold pending the outcome of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary-cap rules, the teams announced Thursday. — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Anthropic had brushed off the White House’s concerns that guardrails on its Fable 5 model could be circumvented, adding to the string of fights the AI lab has gotten into with the White House. — Liz Rappaport, semafor.com, 16 June 2026

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By treating the ship as an evolving platform, CSL and Adbri have bypassed the infrastructure gridlock that leaves many zero-emission concepts stranded on the drawing board.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Tribulations like a ruptured Achilles and being bypassed on the depth chart could have slowed him down.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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Michigan avoided its biggest upset since losing to Appalachian State at the beginning of the 2007 season.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Angelenos avoided the most significant impacts of Hurricane Marie over the Labor Day weekend, but the region continued to soak up the fringes of the storm Sunday, according to meteorologists.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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People walking on the boardwalk narrowly evaded getting hit, with one woman jumping over the railing just in time before the car sped by.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
However, the league’s investigation into the Clippers put the deal on hold after it was alleged that the Clippers evaded the salary cap while signing Leonard to a $103 million free agent deal in July 2019.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of evaded

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All three projects—the ballroom, the arch, and the Kennedy Center—may soon be moving forward simultaneously, red tape cleared (or ignored).

— Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
What mattered was that the project ignored the fact that a ship is nothing but the tip of a very long logistical, regulatory, and infrastructure spear.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of ignored

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Perlis’ portrait of the county at the height of the decade suggests a region that had escaped — or at least refused to look at — the worst of America’s turmoil.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Sousa escaped a bases loaded jam in the sixth inducing an inning-ending double play by Nolan Arenado.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

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