dodger
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In 1988, I won the office pool and with my hundred dollar winnings I bought myself a dodger hat, which is long gone, and a World Series T-shirt, which I have to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
The fare dodger recorded herself talking about travelling in Derby, Tamworth and Burton-upon-Trent.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
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
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
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said Labour's plans to tackle tax dodgers are "not rocket science".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
I knew a lot of draft dodgers who had spent time hiding out in Canada.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
