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Six example sentences with circumvent, each labelled with its topic.
Merchants in the 1700s learned to circumvent the salt tax by landing their cargoes on beaches far from any customs house.
History
Speedrunners circumvent the locked door entirely by clipping through a wall, skipping the key hunt the designers intended.
Gaming
The heist film's crew must circumvent a vault timer, so they cut power to the whole block for ninety seconds.
Movies
Users found a way to circumvent the paywall by changing one letter in the address, and the fix took a week.
Technology
The bank set up offshore accounts to circumvent the lending limits, and the regulator fined it when the scheme surfaced.
Finance
The company renamed the product to circumvent the ruling, and the judge called it the same thing with a new label.
Law
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