skirting
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Critics of these arrangements say private-equity firms use them to gain de facto control over law firms while skirting ownership bans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Giant container ships ply sea lanes skirting the archipelago's southern tip, where roughly a third of global maritime trade transits between Asia, Africa, the Gulf and the Red Sea.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
If nocturnes are the center of Ms. Tomes’s book, night music, broadly conceived, is the topic skirting the edges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
They ran along the bank, skirting it so closely that pebbles flew off their footsteps and bounced down into the water.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Plugs.—Prepare and tar for pisé-builder 3 in. by 1 in. well-seasoned softwood plugs, 15 in. long, as per detail, for skirtings, picture- and chair-rail, to be inserted 3 ft. apart.
From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis
Goods manufactured under this classification include cotton warp checks and mixtures; all wool homespuns, mixture coatings and suitings, storm skirtings, rainproof cloths.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
The walls of the staircase are covered with a sort of plaster called stucco, but closely resembling road-scrapings: the skirtings are of pitch-pine, the balusters of the same material.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
The country about this Fort is almost entirely prairie, producing along the banks of the river and streams only, slight skirtings of timber....
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell
The partitions between the several walls were simply skirtings of planking covered with gold-leaf.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
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