circumvents

verb

present tense third-person singular of circumvent
1
as in bypasses
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 avoids
to avoid by going around circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route

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3
as in traverses
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 circumvents This funneling of men outside of the traditional health system circumvents the important step of appropriate medical workups. — Denise Asafu-Adjei, STAT, 13 Apr. 2026 The exhibit mostly circumvents contextualizing the architectural details of the office, and rather aims to explicate the man who worked within it. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026 RevMed’s daraxonrasib cleverly circumvents this problem by acting as a molecular stickum. — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 29 May 2026 Sea Change reads as an intimate character study, one that circumvents familiar narratives of Asian intergenerational trauma in favor of a more complicated reckoning. — Tessa Yang, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026 Additionally, because the $50 co-payment circumvents Part D, the amount doesn’t count toward a beneficiary’s annual deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Privacy advocates argue the practice circumvents the Fourth Amendment and is contrary to a 2015 law that bars federal agencies from collecting bulk data on Americans. — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026 The suit said the scheme circumvents FDA regulations that generally prohibit importation of unapproved medications from overseas. — Melissa Lee,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026 Saudi Arabia’s crucial East-West pipeline that circumvents the Strait of Hormuz is pumping oil at its full capacity of 7 million barrels a day, according to a person familiar with the matter. — Emma Ross-Thomas, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvents
  1. bypasses
  2. avoids
  3. traverses
  4. evades
  5. circles
  6. ignores
  7. encircles
  8. escapes
Verb
  • Abu Dhabi has sent tankers through the strait with their transponders turned off to evade Iranian surveillance, and used a pipeline to Fujairah that bypasses the chokepoint.
    — Dominic Dudley, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • When deleting this temp file, EncryptPro bypasses the Recycle Bin but doesn’t apply secure deletion, so it could theoretically be recovered with forensic software.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
Definition of bypasses
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  • That process also avoids the use of shielding gases in smelting, and Faulks says that for casting, Lola uses a shielding gas that isn’t environmentally damaging.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
  • When finance leaders think about excise tax, the conversation often starts and ends with the tax team being a cost center that files the returns, meets the deadlines and avoids penalties.
    — Ryan Padget, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of avoids
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  • Like Orton’s prior work, The Ground Above traverses some tricky emotional terrain.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 29 June 2026
  • On July 6, the route traverses Tilden Regional Park and Briones Regional Park before finishing at Heather Farm Park.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
Definition of traverses
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  • If the armed forces are the instrument through which the president evades the Constitution, then the leaders of those armed forces must answer for their role.
    — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
Definition of evades
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  • The gas giant circles its star at an unexpectedly close distance—about 50 times nearer than the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • Chapter 1 Randy Fields stalks through the newsroom, circles my desk and sits across from me.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of circles
Verb
  • This ignores the obvious fact that the Constitution prohibits Congress from giving official status to any religion or from preventing someone from practicing the religion of their choice.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • But blaming seed oils for the declining health of Americans ignores the broader context of America's dietary shift, according to Mozaffarian.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of ignores
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  • The butterfly encircles Larsson's eye, with its wings spanning the whole area from her inner brow to well past its tip.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 6 July 2026
  • In the center of Washington Park is a lagoon, which once weaved in a crescent shape around a peninsula in a configuration that annoyed boaters, but now encircles a central island called Bynum Island.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Definition of encircles
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  • In this year’s survey, more than 661,000 votes were cast—on city and island escapes, safari outfitters, airlines, and hotels around the world.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • California has laws in place regarding driving vehicles with load that escapes from it and what types of items can be carried and how.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Definition of escapes

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