shirking

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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