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

After that is when the singer noticed that kindly dad shirking his duties in “Hot to Go!”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025

One-time hick-hop rapper Jelly Roll is old hat at songs to soundtrack shirking child support payments, but he’s found a bit of a new lane in the path blazed by Wallen.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

"I ken that. I don't like it thought that I'm shirking me duties."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood