Example Sentences

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Saudi Arabia has bypassed Hormuz by shipping about 4.5 million barrels a day from the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Paramount has bypassed Warner’s board and is appealing directly to shareholders in a so-called hostile takeover. asking them to accept $30 a share, which would value its purchase at $78 billion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

He has bypassed bishops from archdioceses that normally have cardinals — Milan, for example — and reached into countries traditionally represented less, such as East Timor, Guatemala, Mongolia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022

There is a paucity of justice and a plethora of paperwork, nearly all of it still processed by typewriter since the computer age has bypassed the country’s legal bureaucracy.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021

The greynaissance has bypassed them entirely and they are politely bemused as I explain.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019