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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
Torre’s team, and later The Athletic, dug into the connections between Aspiration and Clippers’ billionaire owner Steve Ballmer, who had invested $60 million in the company, and the NBA announced an investigation to determine whether Ballmer and the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules.
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Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 29 May 2026
While communication between candidate campaigns and independent committees is forbidden, these rules are commonly circumvented using legal but obvious methods.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
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
When Nepal banned more than two dozen social media platforms—partly in response to #nepokids, a viral hashtag calling out children of the political elite for flaunting luxury lifestyles—protesters circumvented the ban and organized on Discord, turning the platform into a de facto national assembly.
—Time Contributors, Time, 28 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
Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 29 May 2026
While communication between candidate campaigns and independent committees is forbidden, these rules are commonly circumvented using legal but obvious methods.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
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
When Nepal banned more than two dozen social media platforms—partly in response to #nepokids, a viral hashtag calling out children of the political elite for flaunting luxury lifestyles—protesters circumvented the ban and organized on Discord, turning the platform into a de facto national assembly.
—Time Contributors, Time, 28 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvented
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Breaking from traditional market protocols, SpaceX bypassed the customary pricing range to offer investors a rigid, take-it-or-leave-it share price of $135.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
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The order is also in line with expert consensus that individual technical safeguards are imperfect and can be bypassed by attackers.—
Anjana Susarla,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama avoided adding a third flagrant point to his postseason total.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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While the city avoided laying off a number of its already lean staff — which neighbors like San Francisco have had to reckon with — the city’s financial troubles are far from over.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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Despite his complicated feelings about the reservoir itself, his favorite cottonwood in the hundreds of miles of canyons he’s traversed is on the main body of water, near a kink in the canyon known as the Rincón.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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Named after a Norwegian ship that traversed the North and South poles at the turn of the 20th Century, Fram2 sought to pay homage to its namesake with a pioneering polar voyage of its own.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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Johnson evaded questions Friday afternoon from reporters who tried to talk to him about the Bears situation at an event at the Chicago Cultural Center honoring the city’s Puerto Rican community.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2026
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Earlier this month, Swift's long-time collaborator and friend Jack Antonoff carefully evaded questions about his attendance.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department responded to the shooting with several deputies and a helicopter that circled Jennings’ home.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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The mission will build on the Artemis II flight conducted in April, during which four astronauts circled the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any other previous space mission.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
9 June 2026
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The controversy surrounding the transition blush technique is just another example of how easily, in many different fields and industries, Black women’s contributions go ignored, overlooked and erased.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Educators play a crucial role in our society, and the affordability crisis among America’s teachers can no longer be ignored.—
Randi Weingarten,
Time,
11 June 2026
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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Her daughter, Soraya, had taken refuge there with her three children, Christina, Charbel, and Elias, after fleeing Debl, a Christian border village now encircled by Israeli troops.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Junior Grace Simmons escaped an early jam to set the tone for a low-scoring complete game from the circle, and Aniyah Bailey had a birthday to remember by anchoring the team’s contagious offensive showing with two doubles and five RBI in a 3-for-4 day.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2026
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In 2025, Mycoworks shuttered its South Carolina biomanufacturing plant, announcing a pivot to processing cheaper third-party mycelium instead of cultivating it themselves, and Natural Fiber Welding narrowly escaped bankruptcy, adding to the sense of an ending.—
Bella Webb,
Vogue,
11 June 2026
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“Circumvented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumvented. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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