skirting
Example Sentences
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It lays out what’s required to get generous tax breaks on sales, and it also shows just how deep the IRS can dig if it suspects taxpayers are skirting the law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
With the leak's Maryland location upriver from Washington, much of it found its way to the waters skirting the US capital.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Ella lives in the “state,” she runs afoul of the “party,” but skirting these details feels too timid.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
A way of laundering legitimacy and skirting costly courtroom battles for pennies on the dollar.
From Slate • Nov. 3, 2025
They’d march north for a time, then east, then north again, skirting the villages, no one talking except in whispers.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
