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I've come across it in the first episode of the fifth season of the Walking Dead. The cotext is Rick and his friends try to get to his other friends locked in a car train in place overrun by zombies.
Rick: If we run, we can get by them. They are distrated.
To get by a person or persons is to succeed in passing them, especially if they will try to stop you.
