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The country had circumvented sanctions by selling virtually all its products to China, for a much lower price.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Riordan himself loved to tell the story of how his administration had circumvented bureaucracy to help downtown business owners who had complained that “No Parking” signs were cutting sales.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Calling it “a clear form of judge shopping,” the attorneys said prosecutors so wanted to try their cases before Gorton that they had circumvented the process that assigns cases to judges at random.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2019

Only after an arrest was announced did GEDmatch acknowledge that its operator had circumvented his site’s policies.

From Slate • May 29, 2019

Only a few years before, this same man had circumvented the policy of England and imparted a vigorous stimulus to French diplomacy in Europe.

From Marguerite by May, J. Lewis (James Lewis)