Synonyms for Bypass
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1. beltway, bypass, ring road, ringwaynoun

   a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

   Synonyms:
   electrical shunt, beltway, bypass, ring road, ringway, shunt

2. bypassnoun

   a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

   Synonyms:
   ring road, electrical shunt, beltway, ringway, shunt

3. shunt, electrical shunt, bypassverb

   a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

   Synonyms:
   ring road, electrical shunt, beltway, bypass, ringway, shunt

4. bypass, short-circuit, go around, get aroundverb

   avoid something unpleasant or laborious

   "You cannot bypass these rules!"

   Synonyms:
   swing, go around, get about, get out, outflank, short, bypass, rotate, circulate, spread, revolve, short-circuit, break, get around

Matched Categories

1. • Highway
   • Shunt

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1. List of paraphrases for "bypass":

   by-pass, circumvent, circumvention, derivation, diversion, shunt, skip, evade, decking, omit, override, detour, avoid, sidestep, ring, ignore, side-step, short-circuit

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1. Jody Culham:

   She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain – almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.

2. President Barack Obama:

   My advice to a future president is increasingly try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions and try to find new venues within this new media that are quirkier, less predictable.

3. Karolina Miksa:

   It's possible to imagine a variety of ways for a woman to bypass this regulation, but no one should be forced to do so.

4. That Democrat:

   There are concerns about the gun-toting members, but also we don't know who they're going to bring to the inauguration who can bypass the metal detectors, until there's an investigation and until we understand our colleagues' level of complicity in the attack, we don't know how involved they really were. Until we have answers, I don't think we should trust them -- not all of them of course, but some of them.

5. Tom Fitton:

   It’s an easy way to bypass the alleged transparency they’re promising, if they’re going to take the position that this information should be public, what are they hiding when it comes to visiting his home? The presidency doesn’t stop when he’s visiting Delaware.