dodger
Example Sentences
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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
The situation is complicated by the arrival of Omicron, which has proved an artful dodger of vaccines, leaving public health officials warning that a booster shot is necessary to blunt the disease’s worst effects.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
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
After calling in sick, he hopped into his newly purchased car and drove off to meet his friend Bill Wernecke, a fervent Nazi supporter and an expert draft dodger.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
