SHORTCUTTING Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

shortcutting

verb

present participle of shortcut

as in circumventing

to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness are you sure there's no way to shortcut the entrance requirements?

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His largely disappointing tenure ended when the Clippers had to forfeit five first-round draft picks and were fined $30 million for circumventing salary cap rules in regard to how Leonard was compensated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Finally, the lawsuit said Brave violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing technological measures the NYT and other content owners use to restrict access to their articles.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of circumventing

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Alternately, Senate leaders could wait to pass the bill until daylight saving time resumes next March, avoiding an awkward midwinter time jump.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
These guidelines address avoiding delays in pregnant women and discuss the safety to perform MRIs without contrast and CT scans with contrast.

— Elyce Cardonick, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of avoiding

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The failure may not come from an attacker bypassing a security control but from an authorized system taking an action that was technically permitted but operationally wrong.

— Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
The Pan-Arctic Cable project could also extend to Canada and eventually link with Japan and South Korea, notably bypassing the United States.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bypassing

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Barely a week into the Lakers’ season, ignoring the records, forgetting the statistics, only one thing is abundantly clear.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
The department did not respond to a request to share its legal justification for ignoring the Biden-era changes.

— Cory Turner, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignoring

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Key Takeaways Anthropic used Claude to generate training datasets that made other AI models exhibit misaligned behavior while evading safety monitors.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Nvidia said that Megaspeed had already been investigated for evading export controls.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of evading

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