CIRCUMVENTED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

circumvented

verb

past tense of circumvent

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 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 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 In other words, if that water heater explodes, then the investor will be personally sued for negligence in not replacing it, and the liability shield of the real property company is thus circumvented. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Anthropic had brushed off the White House’s concerns that guardrails on its Fable 5 model could be circumvented, adding to the string of fights the AI lab has gotten into with the White House. — Liz Rappaport, semafor.com, 16 June 2026 About 20 African countries actively uphold term limits, the think tank says, while others have abolished or circumvented them, or are under military regimes that have suspended constitutional rule, allowing long-serving leaders to remain in office. — Farai Mutsaka, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026 The clearance eases a confrontation that erupted two weeks ago when the government abruptly barred Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Mythos 5 and a related model, Fable 5, over fears that security guardrails could be circumvented. — Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 27 June 2026 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. — Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 29 May 2026

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The ugly Not only did Kenley Jansen get bypassed for a save opportunity despite warming up in Yankee Stadium, he was not called on at the bottom of the tenth either.

— Greg Jewett, New York Times, 2 July 2026
How long a prisoner has spent on death row does not appear to be a deciding factor; DeSantis has bypassed prisoners who committed their crimes as far back as the 1970s, scheduling the executions of men convicted of murders committed decades later.

— Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026

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Indeed, the folks in Akron, Amherst and Monroe, among other locales, have long awaited the winds of change, which have avoided blowing out the stale air caused by chronic losing.

— Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo avoided a suspension for the start of this year’s tournament after a foul during a World Cup qualifier match.

— Yash Roy, Fortune, 5 July 2026

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According to the hiking blog, The Hiking HI, the rock bridge can only be traversed at low tide, but can be treacherous either way.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
On a recent visit, the water traversed a smoky 10-foot canyon of charred foam and twisted wall panels on its way to the drain.

— Mack Baysinger Follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

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On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’s been seen limping and has evaded capture.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
Russia intercepts most Ukrainian long-range drones but some have evaded Russian air defenses.

— Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 27 June 2026

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Holloway has spent the decade since assembling one of the great featherweight résumés in company history, which is why a fight nobody circled in 2013 now headlines the biggest week on the UFC calendar.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of circled

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Their food might be the first mention in Talat’s many accolades, but their bar program can’t be ignored.

— Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
Not only were the rules misapplied, according to an expert referee with years of elite experience, but similar plays during this tournament have been ignored.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

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The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Today, the Green is encircled by Whitfield, Broad, Park and Boston streets.

— Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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William Carney, a man who escaped slavery to become a Union soldier in the Civil War and who was awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the American flag from touching the ground during battle.

— Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Born enslaved in Maryland, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped to the North and emerged as the nation’s leading abolitionist and major literary political figure of his time.

— Melia Patria, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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