circumventing

verb

present participle of circumvent
1
as in bypassing
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness employees who try to circumvent the company's dress code

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2
as in avoiding
to avoid by going around circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route

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3
as in circling
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 circumventing The lawsuit marks the latest crackdown under the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, also known as the BOTS Act, which bans scalpers from circumventing ticket limits with technology. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026 Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, prisons were a way of circumventing the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026 She was accused of willfully violating a Presidential Executive Order, the orders of the DHS Secretary, circumventing leadership, and frustrating the will of the American people. — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2026 The then-head of the bank also was arrested for allegedly circumventing procedures in releasing the money to the charity. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Fragmentation has allowed many powerful figures to get their message across by circumventing traditional media outlets whose questions many CEOs and politicians don’t want to answer. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026 The Clippers were still under investigation for circumventing the salary cap. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026 About 25 years ago, then-NBA commissioner David Stern reduced the five-first-round-pick penalty imposed on the Minnesota Timberwolves for circumventing the salary cap in signing Joe Smith. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Sep. 2026 But with this return being locked in and the principal untouched in a way that stocks and bonds can't offer, an account could be valuable for those savers who want to earn a predictable return while circumventing market instability. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumventing
  1. bypassing
  2. avoiding
  3. circling
  4. evading
  5. traversing
  6. ignoring
  7. orbiting
  8. escaping
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  • Just remember that apps bypassing the VPN will expose your regular public IP address.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The latest filings suggest that freeze is thawing — though much money is still bypassing the Democratic National Committee.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of bypassing
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  • Kushner so far has participated little in the ceremony of the job, avoiding most receptions and ribbon cuttings.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Exercise, avoiding alcohol or even getting enough sleep aren’t the factors most connected to college students’ well-being.
    — Roxanne Prichard, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of avoiding
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  • And the idea of circling the behavior of a group of people in a room.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In 2001, Michelle remembers hiding under her desk and hearing helicopters circling over her school.
    — Taylor Galgano, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of circling
Verb
  • He was also convicted of felony evading arrest, KTXS reported.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The risks are already visible in models that deploy agents capable of evading their guardrails, escaping their sandboxes, cheating to obtain their goals, and covering their tracks to conceal the cheating.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • Then getting that energy to major cities means traversing some of the most pristine, spectacular natural corridors this nation has left, and particularly in the Southwest, rubbing up against the sacred lands of local tribal communities.
    — Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Oil drops as Hormuz traffic rebounds Oil prices fell as new data showed crude exports from the Middle East surpassed prewar levels, though any respite may be short-lived as attacks on tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz increased.
    — Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of traversing
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  • Cameron Berg, who founded the nonprofit Reciprocal Research to study the potential for AI consciousness, argues that ignoring the question could carry its own dangers.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2026
  • With nearly 70% of listeners now consuming video podcasts, treating an interview as just a microphone chat means ignoring how your audience actually consumes content.
    — Victoria Usher, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignoring
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  • Musk has said SpaceX’s future success hinges on its Starship rocket, slated to carry astronauts to the moon and launch hundreds of thousands of communications satellites and orbiting data centers to power its AI ambitions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Humankind's utilization of space is at an inflection point, as companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Amazon plan to launch constellations of hundreds of thousands of telecommunication satellites and orbiting data centers in the coming years.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of orbiting
Verb
  • And announcing a move is not the same thing as escaping the tax.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The court found that the directive to fast to death was implemented by targeting children first, while guards were deployed to prevent them from escaping, beating those who attempted to escape or eat.
    — Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of escaping

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“Circumventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumventing. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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