as in perimeter
the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
an old shack on the skirts of the town
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as in to circumvent
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
the new bill would make it harder for companies to skirt environmental regulations
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as in to join
to be adjacent to
the commercial district skirts the river's edge
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as in to border
to serve as a border for
the wooden fence that skirts the construction site
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Recent Examples of skirt
Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Ulla Johnson styled an oversized denim pocket tee with a white table cloth skirt.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2024
Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Ethics watchdogs and unions accuse DOGE of skirting federal transparency rules.
—Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2025
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Noun
She was drawn to a racy look by Ann Demeulemeester—a long white skirt with a top comprising a single white feather.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Ulla Johnson styled an oversized denim pocket tee with a white table cloth skirt.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2024
Verb
The President Who Never Picked a Side Indonesia’s Jokowi showed how Asian countries can skirt the U.S.-Chinese rivalry.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Ethics watchdogs and unions accuse DOGE of skirting federal transparency rules.
—Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirt
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The Bucks don’t have a perimeter stopper who can handle the toughest defensive assignments, meaning Lillard’s weaknesses are being magnified.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The lawsuit further alleges that the CHP violated its own policies by failing to have enough officers during the warrant execution or establish a perimeter before attempting to arrest Abril.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
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The pool of proven, potential Dolphins backup quarterback options shrunk slightly on Tuesday when Andy Dalton opted to bypass free agency next month and instead agreed to a two-year, $8 million contract with Carolina, according to ESPN.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
18 Feb. 2025
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The complaint, which was joined by Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, argued that Trump was trying to bypass the U.S. Constitution to deny citizenship to tens of thousands of unborn children.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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The legal battle gained further attention when, on February 7, a federal appeals court ruled on a procedural matter in the investigation, which had initially considered whether McMahon had circumvented WWE's internal controls to hide these allegations.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Other countries under sanctions – Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela – have previously employed clandestine shipping networks to circumvent international scrutiny and sanctions.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Feb. 2025
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The officials were also worried about whether Ukraine joining NATO would be on the table in negotiations.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Kansas City Star Maddie Hartley, a digital layout editor working on the Morning Sports Edition, joined The Star in 2023.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2025
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The next morning, Storer drove to Altadena—an area bordering Eaton Canyon that’s long been a haven for middle-class Black families and has recently attracted the young and upwardly mobile—to help another friend evacuate and hose down her home.—
Hannah Goldfield,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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One of Atlanta's prettiest parks and a Downtown street bordering City Hall are being renamed in honor of Atlanta's first woman mayor.—
Thomas Wheatley,
Axios,
6 Feb. 2025
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The dogs crowded at the edge of the cliff, barking around a small piñon that grew from a crack in the rocks.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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This is important because the solar wind ricochets around the bubble our solar system sits within, known as the heliosphere; the edges of that bubble represent the barrier between our cosmic neighborhood and the rest of the universe.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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In a post on X, the NYPD asked people to avoid the area as the investigation proceeded.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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The couple have been riding high ever since, with Harlow famously avoiding singer Usher’s flirtatious serenade during his Las Vegas residency out of respect for the Milwaukee Buck back in 2023.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Colt escapes by initially driving a speedboat while facing away from the controls, evades his pursuers by zigging and zagging through the river, and then purposefully drives his boat into a floating pontoon, faking his own death via the gigantic explosion.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Now, however, DHS states that the previous rules hindered law enforcement efforts by creating sites where people without legal status could evade capture.—
Jackie Fortiér,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Skirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirt. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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