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The government's counsel, Jenkin Suen, told the inquiry that authorities would not shirk responsibility and pledged "systemic reforms".

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

And yet, both Andie and Iona shirk their individuality for stability, leaving those singular, oh-so-charming elements of their characters in the dust when wealthy men come calling.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

“Once an artificial intelligence weapon system produces safety hazards, the ‘algorithm black box’ may become a rationalized excuse for the relevant responsible parties to shirk responsibility,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Lecornu said that "no-one will be able to shirk" the necessity of restoring France's public finances.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025

His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Center.

From "1984" by George Orwell

But she never shirks from the hard facts of the Du Bois history, or that of blackness in this country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

But everything up to this point shows he never shirks a challenge, and he usually finds success.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

Everybody else just sort of shirks because they think they own the room.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022

The rainbow house shirks those safer sensibilities in an effort to include all family members regardless of age in the styling of the house.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Now he shirks all family cares, This I must confess; Quite absorbed in self affairs In the season's stress.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

A 437-page report written by a panel of three judges in 2021 found that the state had shirked its duty to protect Caruana Galizia and subjected her to personal attacks and verbal abuse from politicians.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In Mr. Scott’s telling, Truman is a scaled-down version of David McCullough’s everyman hero: a political pugilist who, despite inner doubts, never shirked the hard moral decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

But when one vice signals, the out-group’s values take center stage — in order to be shirked rather than lived up to.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

None of the trio shirked their responsibility, delivering a lion-hearted effort on Saturday in particular.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

Public opinion took care that no man in the community shirked his work.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

"They seem to be shirking their responsibilities all together and saying this is not an issue for us," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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

After that is when the singer noticed that kindly dad shirking his duties in “Hot to Go!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

“Such a shirking trick in a workman employed to keep the terraces clean should be a criminal offence.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson