Example Sentences

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Sudani said Friday that the U.S. had bypassed the Iraqi government, which is “the body authorized to impose the law.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

Dr Jayaram told jurors that he wished he had bypassed hospital management and gone to the police.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023

Fire, no stranger to these hills where the Sierra Nevada meets the Cascade Range, had bypassed the family before.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2020

One American official said the White House had bypassed the Pentagon by getting classified briefings of coming operations directly from the Special Operations task forces, to the frustration of Mr. Mattis.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2018

One day, as soon as we had left the forested area of a village we had bypassed, a group of huge, muscular men sprang from the bushes onto the path in front of us.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah