(v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Example Sentences:
(1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(2) To circumvent the restriction of having to analyze relatively short PCR fragments, restriction endonucleases were used to cleave a longer PCR product and the mixture of fragments was analyzed directly in SSCP gel electrophoresis.
(3) In order to circumvent the inhibitory reaction potentially occurring in cell-free systems, R-5020-binding studies additionally were performed in cell suspension.
(4) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
(5) The detection of antigen in samples of urine collected serially may circumvent this problem in the future.
(6) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
(7) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
(8) The data provide strong indications that one critical role of T-cell participation in humoral responses to antigens is to circumvent the development of a tolerogenic signal that, in the absence of such T-cell function, might otherwise ensue after binding of the antigenic determinants by specific precursor B lymphocytes.
(9) To circumvent this problem a general assay for the turn-off reaction has now been developed.
(10) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(11) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
(12) These findings indicate alternative metabolic pathways may be operational in newborn rat brain enabling it to circumvent major blockage in thiamine-dependent reactions.
(13) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(14) In contrast, these deletions do not circumvent aerobic repression of the nar operon (encoding the anaerobic respiratory enzyme nitrate reductase) under the control of the pleiotropic fnr gene product.
(15) In many samples, dynamical scattering and other non-linear effects limit the information in the image, but this limit can be circumvented by working in very thin areas of the specimen.
(16) Under "strong" antigen stimulation the IgE blockade is circumvented, presumably via the production of excessive amounts of interleukin-4 (IL-4).
(17) The present findings suggest the utility of CPIB as a selective agent to circumvent ADR resistance and to reduce host toxicity due to the drug.
(18) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
(19) A method was developed which circumvents the problems of the anticomplementary properties of agar media and the requirement of some L-phase variants for concentrations of salt that inhibit complement.
(20) To circumvent this complication, the VCG was reconstructed from the simultaneously recorded ECG leads.
Outsmart
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "Virgin Trains has not been liked by the DfT because the department holds the view that it has been outsmarted and outgunned in commercial negotiations in previous years.
(2) "If you want to get on, certainly in tabloid journalism, then you have to outsmart the criminals and outsmart all these lawyers who are in it for the money.
(3) For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday .
(4) Luckily for the viewer, if not for Breslin, he's not so easily outsmarted.
(5) In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.
(6) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
(7) The reflex reaction to an act of mass terror was not to outsmart, out-think and marginalise the new enemy – it was to get even by being even more violent, lawless and vicious, leading Nato into the Afghan quagmire, and the coalition in Iraq.
(8) Murdoch, who knows how to outsmart his enemies, moved to gain control of events by saying he would withdraw his undertaking to spin off Sky News 30 minutes before Hunt spoke.
(9) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
(10) "Not even a big agent like Jorge Mendes can outsmart me," Zahovic told DNvevnik.
(11) It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.
(12) Sherlock outsmarted the competition with almost 8 million viewers tuning into watch the climax of the super sleuth's battle against arch nemesis Moriarty in the final episode on Sunday night.
(13) Yet the teetotaller, a traditional Zulu with four wives and 21 children, has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred every political rival to retain an iron grip on the governing party.
(14) The studios are normally in the running; but they've been outsmarted in the recent past."
(15) They just outsmarted us.” The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, told the BBC that South Africa could still bounce back.
(16) "I feel sorry for him, the other parties outsmarted him," Narayan said.
(17) Interview Part two: On Lionel Messi, Teddy Sheringham and outsmarting defenders Guardian US sports has live minute-by-minute coverage of all MLS playoff games, including the second leg of LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake
(18) Even when Lawson became chancellor and Peter Walker succeeded him at energy, Lawson still played a crucial role in trying to outsmart Rooke.
(19) But it is still being outsmarted by Aldi, Lidl and domestic chains such as Musgrave’s SuperValu.
(20) A ll but lost in the excitement of Everton not only winning at Manchester United for the first time in more than 20 years but having a left-back in the opposition penalty area in the 86th minute looking to score a goal was the consideration that Roberto Martínez outsmarted David Moyes in the transfer window as well as on the Old Trafford pitch.