shirking
Example Sentences
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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
BC Smith calls “Phasmagorica” an “experiment,” shirking at the word performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
I feel like in some ways, the notion of apocalypse is just about shirking our responsibility as humans to take charge of what's happening on this planet.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
It was perhaps not more dangerous than shirking an evening at the Center.
From "1984" by George Orwell
