CIRCUMVENTS Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

circumvents

verb

present tense third-person singular of circumvent

as in bypasses

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 avoids

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

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as in traverses

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 circumvents This funneling of men outside of the traditional health system circumvents the important step of appropriate medical workups. —

Denise Asafu-Adjei, STAT, 13 Apr. 2026 Saudi Arabia’s crucial East-West pipeline that circumvents the Strait of Hormuz is pumping oil at its full capacity of 7 million barrels a day, according to a person familiar with the matter. —

Emma Ross-Thomas, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026 Privacy advocates argue the practice circumvents the Fourth Amendment and is contrary to a 2015 law that bars federal agencies from collecting bulk data on Americans. —

Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026 The suit said the scheme circumvents FDA regulations that generally prohibit importation of unapproved medications from overseas. —

Melissa Lee,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026 Many of the mistakes or inconsistencies that happen in garment manufacturing stem from human error, which CreateMe circumvents. —

Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 19 Feb. 2026 Moscow is at the mercy of an American president who circumvents traditional channels of power and obliterates the constraints that once regulated their use. —

Alan Cullison, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 Today’s staged raid reinforces our conviction that this investigation distorts French law, circumvents due process, and endangers free speech. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026 In Fraenkel’s account, an authoritarian system can preserve a normative state—courts, procedures, legality—while simultaneously constructing a prerogative state that overrides or circumvents those constraints in the name of necessity, emergency, or national survival. —

Alejandro Reyes, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026

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Republican leaders resorted to using the special reconciliation process, which bypasses the threat of Democrats blocking the bill in the Senate, to fund those agencies while the Senate also passed a bipartisan bill to fund the rest of DHS.

— by Emily Brooks, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2026
Levine Cava said the Kelly Tractor project destroys too many wetlands and bypasses county rules on approving development proposed outside Miami-Dade’s Urban Development Boundary.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026