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24. "Another word crime?" |
So I just saw a preview for Tea Leoni's upcoming new show "Madame Secretary", in which she plays the Secretary Of State. She responds to another character's query (I think the Chief of Staff) that she accomplished something by "circumnavigating your authority".Now I know "circumnavigate" means "to go around" but I always thought it was used strictly in a geographic sense, i.e. to physically travel around a location -- "circumnavigate the globe"; "circumnavigate a war zone". It seems to me that the correct word here would be "circumvent", which also means to "go around", but in the sense of bypassing/ignoring regulations, red tape, other abstract obstacles etc., possibly through trickery, and has no geographic connotation. So is Tea correct to use "circumnavigate"? It really sounded odd to me. Grammarians of OT, weigh in...
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