dodger
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A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Was he a draft dodger who fled to Canada on principle to escape military service?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
Though he was sometimes labeled a draft dodger, he was very much the opposite.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
But that dodger, as soon as he had caught the woman’s eye and nodded, slipped away to join the ship.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Social media was replete with jokes and memes about fleeing influencers, tax dodgers and crypto bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The mass demonstration follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, with thousands of call-up notices ignored in recent months and several deserters imprisoned.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Indeed, pardons of that kind have been issued by the tens of thousands to former rebels, insurrectionaries, draft dodgers, or deserters after nearly every American domestic or foreign conflict.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
Labour is pledging to fund policies on the NHS and school breakfast clubs by boosting efforts to tackle tax dodgers.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
He thought: body not much good but the mind works well. l\vo young lieutenants sat down near him, chewing on com dodgers.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
