shirking

Example Sentences

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Without shirking responsibility, the 52-year-old explained that her judgment had been clouded in part by other circumstances in her life.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Employees monitor social-media posts to spot users’ latest methods for shirking their missions, said Jay Shin, chief executive of DelightRoom, the South Korean company behind Alarmy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

If letting Claude kill people on its own is not shirking oversight mechanisms, then we might reasonably question which “oversight mechanisms” Anthropic is talking about.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

One-time hick-hop rapper Jelly Roll is old hat at songs to soundtrack shirking child support payments, but he’s found a bit of a new lane in the path blazed by Wallen.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

At the Rad Lab, it seemed, one could get away with a half-finished research project, but shirking one’s nighttime shift operating the machine was a sin.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik