weasel out of

Example Sentences

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“But when universities do the same thing by trying to weasel out of their contracts, it’s equally corrosive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Pick something that you feel like you can't weasel out of, and then you just have to do it.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2023

“He’s trying to weasel out of any responsibility for running the agency,” says Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 19, 2021

Now let me weasel out of those reservations.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2016

I’d earned some sympathy because of the attack, but I doubt I’d be able to weasel out of a detention if Marten caught me trying to skip.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson