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The President circumvented Congress by appointing the U.N. Ambassador after the Senate adjourned for the summer.
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They look at you and see you as a badge of pride, because they were able to circumvent the law and have a Third. (source)circumvent = avoid or work around
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All of the large gunter clans immediately banded together to launch a full-scale assault on the Sixers' force field, trying everything they could think of to bring it down or circumvent it.† (source)
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His tracks led toward the east buttress of Denali, straight through a labyrinth of giant crevasses, evidence that he had made no apparent effort to circumvent obvious hazards.† (source)
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The family affairs had been arranged so that the bulk of Simon's estate would circumvent Serena and go to their children.† (source)
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A combination of horror and desire subsequently impelled him back each evening, despite his earlier resolution that they do nothing that was disrespectful to his parents, and they would touch and stroke and taste, always stopping short of sex, upon which she no longer insisted, and which they had by now found ample means to circumvent.† (source)
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Yet it had worked, more or less, and when it had not, he and his sister made themselves available to circumvent obstacles.† (source)
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He circumvented a cluster of people, straining for a better view.† (source)
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They could do whatever they wanted to me for circumventing orders.† (source)
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You little thought that one was so nigh, who saw into all the circumventions of your hunt; but there was I, sometimes flat behind a bush or a tuft of grass, sometimes rolling down a hill into a bottom, and little did you dream that your motions were watched, as the panther watches the drinking deer.† (source)
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So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers.† (source)
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This was the only way Saphira and I could circumvent them.† (source)
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And not for the first time, the Baron wondered if there ever would come a day when the Guild might be circumvented.† (source)
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Unexpectedly, all these people — people without a roof over their heads, without work, with the gloomiest of prospects — realized that large sums of money could be made with great ease by circumventing German decrees.† (source)
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what have I not known the young, and the delicate, and the virtuous, and the modest, to undergo, in my time, among the horrifications and circumventions of Indian warfare!† (source)
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