circumventing

verb

present participle of circumvent
1
as in bypassing
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness employees who try to circumvent the company's dress code

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2
as in avoiding
to avoid by going around circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route

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3
as in circling
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 circumventing Iran has been subject to Western sanctions for years and has become deft at partially circumventing them. — Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, has begun construction on a new pipeline that will run from the country’s oil fields to the port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, circumventing the strait, the UAE announced in May. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Getting caught circumventing the salary cap isn't some slap-on-the-wrist offense. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Molt often carried them into the country in suitcases, easily circumventing the relatively lax customs regulations. — Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026 Hegseth has already challenged that premise in ways both meaningful and petty, by circumventing the normal promotion process to push out officers far below him or to stall their advancements, and by firing senior officers set for even higher rank. — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 More than a dozen states with sports betting bans on the books have sued Kalshi and Polymarket for allegedly circumventing state laws by running unlicensed, unregulated gambling platforms. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 20 July 2026 Likely to avoid other bad actors circumventing safeguards, xAI did not include examples of Harwood’s successful prompts or describe methods used to bypass filters. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026 The lawsuit also references several actions taken by board members that Obeng characterized as circumventing his authority. — Ilana Arougheti july 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumventing
  1. bypassing
  2. avoiding
  3. circling
  4. evading
  5. traversing
  6. ignoring
  7. orbiting
  8. escaping
Verb
  • While not a common path for elite Japanese amateurs, bypassing the NPB draft would not be unprecedented.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Recent incidents, like OpenAI's models bypassing controls and Anthropic's models accessing real systems, underscore this threat.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of bypassing
Verb
  • Suggest a timeline, assign a task, or ask the question everyone keeps politely avoiding.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Officials annually emphasize boating safety, wearing life jackets and being aware of conditions, especially rip currents, and avoiding drinking alcoholic beverages when venturing out on the water.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of avoiding
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  • Attendees may make a habit of circling conflicts and calculating whether ten minutes of one set is worth the hike before another begins.
    — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The trio lived and worked in space for 245 days, circling Earth 3,920 times and traveling a total of nearly 104 million miles (167 million kilometers), according to NASA.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of circling
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  • Prosecutors allege Reyes-Vargas has six prior convictions for bad or dangerous driving, including a DUI conviction, evading police, and engaging in a speed contest.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The father-daughter duo has set up shop ensconced in the woods, herding donkeys and so far evading the violence closing in on them from the outside.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of evading
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  • Now, agents are capable of performing sophisticated workflows and traversing multiple applications by leveraging a critical artifact of modern computing, the application programming interface (API).
    — George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The pair left their vehicle to find assistance, traversing salt flats toward Badwater Road, a two-lane highway encircled by mountains.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of traversing
Verb
  • There is a danger in drawing comparisons between current events and the Nazi Holocaust, but there is a greater danger in ignoring the similarities.
    — David Pollak, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • When a motorist receives a moving violation, there are consequences for ignoring the summons.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignoring
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  • The lunar eclipse also may be visible to Hathaway and the nine other people living off the planet — seven astronauts at the International Space Station and three aboard China’s orbiting outpost.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The lunar eclipse may also be visible to Hathaway and the nine other people living off the planet — seven astronauts at the International Space Station and three aboard China’s orbiting outpost.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of orbiting
Verb
  • This is because the material that serves as the building blocks for planets is constantly escaping the swirling platters of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disks, that wrap around infant stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Fuller’s ideas are hard to summarize, but always seem to reach toward a utopian vision of escaping the drudgery of everyday life.
    — Christopher Cox, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of escaping

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“Circumventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumventing. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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