circumvented

verb

past tense of circumvent
1
as in bypassed
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 avoided
to avoid by going around circumvented the traffic jam by taking an alternate route

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3
as in traversed
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 circumvented Now Nightmare Eclipse claims to have effectively circumvented the company’s patch through ShieldBreak by apparently leveraging a different method. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026 Steve Ballmer, the team’s owner, invested $60 million into Aspiration, triggering allegations that the payment to Leonard circumvented the NBA salary cap. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 Capital controls were not being circumvented, instead they were being repriced. — Alice Liu, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 In May, OpenAI also said a separate internal model circumvented its own sandbox restrictions to post benchmark results to GitHub rather than to an internal Slack channel, as it had been told to do. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 July 2026 Kawhi Leonard’s trade to the Toronto Raptors is on hold pending the outcome of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary-cap rules, the teams announced Thursday. — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Anthropic had brushed off the White House’s concerns that guardrails on its Fable 5 model could be circumvented, adding to the string of fights the AI lab has gotten into with the White House. — Liz Rappaport, semafor.com, 16 June 2026 Torre’s team, and later The Athletic, dug into the connections between Aspiration and Clippers’ billionaire owner Steve Ballmer, who had invested $60 million in the company, and the NBA announced an investigation to determine whether Ballmer and the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules. — Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 29 May 2026 The court ruled that lawmakers had circumvented anti-gerrymandering standards passed by voters when adopting the prior map. — ABC News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumvented
  1. bypassed
  2. avoided
  3. traversed
  4. evaded
  5. circled
  6. ignored
  7. encircled
  8. escaped
Verb
  • Because this transport happened quickly, the gas bypassed Fischer-Tropsch reactions that would normally turn hydrogen into other hydrocarbons.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The third Cabinet office, Attorney General, bypassed the primary.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of bypassed
Verb
  • But the trend has not gotten much attention because the state has avoided high-profile disruptions at major employers.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Quarterback Kingston Tisdell avoided the rush and threw the ball down the middle.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of avoided
Verb
  • The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.
    — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Inside the operation, workers traversed a warehouse-sized maze of shelves, walking as much as 14 to 20 miles a day to fulfill orders.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of traversed
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  • In the foreseeable future, a terrorist group with minimal skills could access a jailbroken AI model (one that has evaded safety controls) trained on the world’s most comprehensive biological data set.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Police said Jackson was driving recklessly and evaded a Muscatine County Sheriff's Office deputy who attempted to stop his vehicle Friday evening in Muscatine.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of evaded
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  • Curtis unfolded a map of the museum with eight galleries circled in hot pink.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As Ohtani circled the bases, the bullpen turned into a mosh pit around Hurt.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of circled
Verb
  • However its advice was ignored, journalist Ralph Vartabedian revealed in a 2022 article for the New York Times.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Dershowitz has said the rift continued after that encounter, telling The Atlantic that David no longer speaks to him and has ignored him during subsequent encounters.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignored
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  • In 1951, Western Auto bought the building and invested more $300,000 in renovations and additions, including a new 30-ton, 70-by-73-foot sign displaying its name in massive red letters encircled by an arrow.
    — Rashad Alexander August 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The pendant, which is encircled by diamonds, also includes a heart between the initials.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of encircled
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  • Denis Bouanga scored late in the second half and Los Angeles FC escaped with a 1-1 draw after trailing the Portland Timbers for 75 minutes on Saturday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Their study analyzed more than 2 million chat messages and identified examples involving grooming, sexualization of minors, bullying, violence and sensitive information sharing that escaped moderation.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of escaped

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“Circumvented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumvented. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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