Sentence example with the word 'circumvent'

circumvent

avoid, burke, close the circle, dash, dish, foil, go around, lap, outsmart, shake, take in

Definition v. surround so as to force to give up

Last update: April 6, 2016


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It is difficult to circumvent the problems that keep cropping up everyday.   [verb]

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Therefore, in recent years, the IMF has begun to circumvent the restrictions of its overall quota.   [verb]

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The ban on all religious groups is merely an artifice to circumvent prohibitions on discrimination against a specific group by discriminating against everyone equally.   [verb]

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I circumvented them--I played at bogle about the bush wi' them--I cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves.'   [verb]

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"Aye, shame on the Hollanders and Iroquois, who circumvented them by their deviltries, into such a treaty."   [verb]

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Cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable.   [verb]

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But the watchful Nephele contrived to circumvent her cruel designs, and succeeded in getting the children out of the palace.   [verb]

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They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or other of Brujon's machinations.   [verb]

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"I had thought that there might be some way to circumvent him."   [Please select]

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