Circumvent

//səːkəmˈvɛnt//

"Circumvent" in a Sentence (7 examples)

You'll have to find a trick to circumvent that issue.

For every law, there's always someone trying to circumvent it.

The troops had to circumvent the entire forest.

One can legally do business with the so-called “occupied territories” in the east, but smugglers circumvent cumbersome legal procedures and opt to deliver goods clandestinely.

The rich often use shady tactics to circumvent tax regulations.

The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.

We are mortified by not being thought worthy of trust; and there is also a feeling of small triumph in circumventing those who doubt either our inclination or our power of service.

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