"is passed over" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is usually used when someone is denied or overlooked for something, usually a promotion or a desired outcome. For example, "The other candidate for the job was passed over in favor of the more experienced applicant."
Only areas of difference between contenders end up being discussion points during elections, the rest is passed over in silence.
He is adorable but shy and so is passed over as the dogs around him are adopted.
If Garcia or Colon is passed over, he will become a free agent and thus resume his search for work, for an opportunity, once again.
In MIT's 3DP process this layer is passed over by a device similar to the head of an ink-jet printer.
And Janet L. Yellen, the Fed's vice chairwoman, is seen as unlikely to remain if she is passed over in favor of Mr. Summers.
Weirdly, the question of wife and kids is passed over: Watney is more exercised about sending a message home to his poor old mum and dad.
The BBC Singers then give the sensation of a dying fall, as the backroom heroism which turned the U-boat tide at Bletchley Park is passed over in a sentence.
What needs to be exposed and interrogated, however, is something that is passed over by the everyday account, namely the essence of technology.
The history of metaphysics is thus equivalent to the history of Western philosophy in which Being as such is passed over, a history that, for Heidegger, culminates in the nihilistic forces of Nietzsche's eternally recurring will-to-power.
If Yellen is passed over for the nomination, she probably would resign from the Fed's Board of Governors.
An American In Paris is politely remembered for its dance, while the paper-thin storyline is passed over in silence.
