Third person singular present tense: to go around, avoid, or bypass something through clever means.
From Latin circumvenire in the third person singular present tense form. In English, the -s ending marks third person singular (he/she/it circumvents).
A master pickpocket circumvents centuries of lock-design by understanding that the weakest point of security is usually human attention and expectation, not the mechanism itself.
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