bypass
noun
a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
bypassed
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past participleof bypass.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bypass.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bypassnouna road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
Example Sentences
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Banks were under its sway, and cities that didn’t meet its demands could be bypassed by new rail lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Bonn researchers instead bypassed the pluripotent stage entirely.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Last month it emerged that a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government health statistics website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Around 40% of those exports bypassed the Strait of Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, with 23% loading outside the strait along the Gulf of Oman and another 17% leaving through the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
How amazing, astonishing it is that we have this technology, this link—all the hundreds of miles between us, field and forest and river and sea, all the guards and guns, bypassed in an eye blink.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
