circumventable love

Definitions

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  • adjective Capable of being circumvented.

Etymologies

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circumvent +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Once the full body scanner proves to be fallable or to be circumventable -- and it will; there will be another Qaeda Underpants or Shoe Bomber and maybe the next will succeed -- there aren't too many more layers of security to go before we all start removing all of our layers in order to get on a plane.

    Collective Punishment The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • Once the full body scanner proves to be fallable or to be circumventable -- and it will; there will be another Qaeda Underpants or Shoe Bomber and maybe the next will succeed -- there aren't too many more layers of security to go before we all start removing all of our layers in order to get on a plane.

    Archive 2010-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • I lack technical expertise, but wouldn't his be easily circumventable with a proxy served by an approved ISP? great.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • And ironically (and sadly) your blog posts are on a site which is banned here (although circumventable, hence my comment).

    Writer's Block and Margaret's Eggplant Mercedes 2009

  • I lack technical expertise, but wouldn't his be easily circumventable with a proxy served by an approved ISP? great.

    Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009

  • Now, so it should be called the Weinberg particle, although you know, five other people made the same discovery as Higgs at the same time about the theorem being circumventable.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Indeed, beyond the filibuster (which is circumventable in many cases), the only way Republicans and the conservative/Tea Party movement can wield power is through perception.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Sirota 2010

  • It had possibility but after a few years now the good is circumventable and the bad becomes the standard.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • It's self-evident that filtering will be trivially circumventable.

    ARN News 2009

  • It's self-evident that filtering will be trivially circumventable.

    ARN News 2009

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