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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
The Food and Drug Administration decided that 23andMe’s test and health reports about a person’s predisposition to various diseases circumvented the regulator.
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Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Evers eventually circumvented the Joint Finance Committee with American Rescue Plan Act funds.
—Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2024
By leveraging its specialized materials technology and patented manufacturing processes, the company has circumvented the long-standing challenge of maintaining specific capacity with increase in manganese content.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2024
This means that anything that the airlines agree to will mostly be window dressing and, eventually, will be circumvented with new rules and limitations.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
The next government should acknowledge that Johnson and his team circumvented the spirit if not the letter of their laws, rules, and norms around COVID-19 lockdowns when hosting parties.
—Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2022
Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Evers eventually circumvented the Joint Finance Committee with American Rescue Plan Act funds.
—Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2024
By leveraging its specialized materials technology and patented manufacturing processes, the company has circumvented the long-standing challenge of maintaining specific capacity with increase in manganese content.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2024
This means that anything that the airlines agree to will mostly be window dressing and, eventually, will be circumvented with new rules and limitations.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
The next government should acknowledge that Johnson and his team circumvented the spirit if not the letter of their laws, rules, and norms around COVID-19 lockdowns when hosting parties.
—Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvented
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When a city’s leadership makes the decision, divisive and expensive referenda can be avoided, Newbrun wrote.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Hollywood mostly avoided the post-election weekend out of concern that people wouldn’t be paying attention to anything other than the presidential race.Variety, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Police fanned out downtown, launching a massive search for the gunman behind the double homicide while a helicopter circled overhead, broadcasting the suspect’s description.Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The heat hit hard and the men and the boys, who had been on foot for months, blended in with scrub brush and cactus, keeping an eye on the cartel gunmen camped on a ridge beneath a blue sky where vultures circled.Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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The free kick evaded Arsenal’s attackers, ending up in the net.Jamie Barton, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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The drone had evaded Israeli air defenses by approaching Israel from its Mediterranean coast.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Judy Randall, the nonpartisan head of Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor, said that multiple state agencies under the Walz administration have repeatedly downplayed and ignored looming oversight failures, according to a CNN report.Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Oct. 2024
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Speaking of genres that the Academy has been undervaluing in top categories, there’s Latin music… and if last year wasn’t a chance for those sounds to get into the big four, this one won’t likely be either, with a less obvious crop of contenders than got ignored last time around.Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
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In May, the filmmaker escaped to Europe after receiving sentence of jail and flogging from the Iranian authorities.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie and John Zara escaped from their home near Asheville but had to leave their phones, identification and other belongings behind.NBC News, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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Augusta was hard-hit by Hurricane Helene, which crossed the Georgia border as a high-end Category 2 hurricane early Friday.Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
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But the two companies closed down operations a day before the storm crossed the region, with no word on when work would resume.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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Asked again about his non-answer, Vance dodged again.John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2024
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The hospital, atop a hill just south of downtown Asheville, dodged flooding that submerged much of Buncombe County but is laboring to keep up with an onslaught of patients from several counties.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Circumvented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumvented. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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