1.   By inventing the general merchandise mail-order catalog, Ward could keep prices low through bypassing the middlemen, like small-town shopkeepers and itinerant salesmen.

2.   Dennis Greenstein, another Manhattan co-op lawyer, said that some of his client boards were bypassing middlemen when looking for vendors and contractors.

3.   He would lease the bulls to reservation ranchers and, bypassing most middlemen, sell the beef to the Pequots and other wealthy tribes for their restaurants.

4.   In an act of revenge, according to the tale, one angry customer sent out the recipe via the Internet, to bypass the middleman.

5.   In California, Kendall-Jackson has bypassed middlemen by creating its own wholesaler, and Platt says the company may extend that operation nationwide.

6.   Nonprofits could buy scrip directly from participating companies, bypassing middlemen.

7.   Now a new breed of computerized trading systems is bypassing these middlemen.

8.   Online auto firms were supposed to put conventional dealers out of business by letting consumers shop nationwide and bypass the middleman.

9.   Some people bypass the middleman and conduct their own searches.

10.   They believe they can become profitable by bypassing middlemen and finding specialized markets for their products, rather than competing head-to-head with corporate farms for large commercial buyers.