circumvention

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as in bypassing

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Recent Examples of circumvention Such circumvention of due process is part of the accusations against Duterte and Dela Rosa. — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 13 May 2026 The Clippers’ circumvention, if proved, would amount to Steve Ballmer playing to his strength as the league’s richest owner and the world’s 10th-richest man. — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026 Few Western democracies are willing to embrace the kind of highly restrictive model that would make circumvention nearly impossible. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2026 However, the fun police in the NBA’s legal department would (correctly) view this is as blatant cap circumvention, and would not treat this as a laughing matter. — John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 June 2026 Iranians normally access these only through circumvention tools, such as VPNs. — Holly Dagres, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026 Less clear, however, is the status of Leonard amid the NBA’s investigation into potential salary-cap circumvention by the Clippers regarding Leonard. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026 Yet most will only remember that Leonard’s tenure in the City of Angels netted zero Larry O’Brien trophies and instead plenty of load management and one ongoing salary cap circumvention investigation. — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Clippers investigation Silver said he has been told that the Los Angeles Clippers have been cooperative with the external investigation into their possible circumvention of the salary cap through a suspicious endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard with a now-bankrupt company. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvention
  1. bypassing
  2. evasion
  3. skirting
  4. sidestepping
Noun
  • After weeks of testing, Fable 5 is no longer vulnerable to a bypassing method discovered by Amazon researchers that identified several software vulnerabilities and triggered the export curbs.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • Assistive listening studies report that bypassing room acoustics and delivering audio directly can improve signal‑to‑noise ratios by 15–20 dB, making announcements comprehensible and lectures clearer [8].
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
Definition of bypassing
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  • In the early days of the republic, there were many radicals and reformers who shared my suspicion that patriotism was an evasion, substituting songs and speeches about liberty for the reality.
    — Dominic Erdozain, Time, 3 July 2026
  • The electoral authority based the candidate bans on a law against corrupt practices that in previous years saw some parliamentary seats bought with money linked to drug trafficking, corruption and tax evasion.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of evasion
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  • Yet by skirting and at times ignoring those rules, ride-sharing companies were able to acquire a critical mass of users in a short period of time.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • The Dominator 3, at its base a Ford F-350, features an armored shell and skirting designed to keep winds from lifting the vehicle; strong windows, equipment for tracking weather data and a hydraulic spike system used to anchor the vehicle to the ground.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Definition of skirting
Noun
  • Critics called the change an unjustified, undemocratic sidestepping of the state constitution and the will of voters.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • One was the very clear sidestepping of Palestinian sovereignty, and the second was the issue of Iran.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of sidestepping

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