as in adjacent
having a border in common
the house hunters loved the property, but they were a bit leery of the skirting swamp
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as in edge
the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
the skirting on the saddle was a slightly darker shade of leather
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1
as in bypassing
to avoid by going around
skirted the construction zone
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2
as in circumventing
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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3
as in adjoining
to be adjacent to
the commercial district skirts the river's edge
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as in bordering
to serve as a border for
the wooden fence that skirts the construction site
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Recent Examples of skirting
Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2023
With the fall of Bankman-Fried’s empire, all eyes turned to Binance, the stateless exchange with a reputation for rule-skirting.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Fast Five is where the franchise started skirting the boundaries of reality.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Noun
And Jennifer Lopez's high tea ensemble was all down to exaggerated skirting and equally eye-catching alabaster blooms.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2023
With the fall of Bankman-Fried’s empire, all eyes turned to Binance, the stateless exchange with a reputation for rule-skirting.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
Verb
After skirting the East Coast, the storm is beginning to turn further out into the Atlantic Ocean.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Fast Five is where the franchise started skirting the boundaries of reality.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirting
Adjective
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Prosecutors say a fair trial would be impossible not only in this mountain community of fewer than 22,000 people, but also any other adjacent county because the suspect and victim were both well known.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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The Gary Housing Authority, which owns the schools, and the city of Gary are completing state and federal approvals for the demolition of Emerson and Horace Mann, and two adjacent vacant elementaries, Spaulding and Vohr.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the southwestern side of the fire, hand crews and dozers began building new containment lines along Sycamore Ridge Road to prevent the westward spread of the fire from the Dinkey Creek drainage and cut the fire off close to its active edge.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The base stores up to three tools, including a corner cleaner and an edge sweeper.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This isn’t the first study to suggest the importance of breakfast for living a long life—research has shown that regularly eating a morning meal is linked with lower overall and heart-related mortality (and that bypassing it can up your heart-disease risk).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 2025
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The whole point was to build open, borderless systems that couldn’t be switched off, bypassing the gatekeepers of traditional finance.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bogdan is ordered by Ventham to start digging at the back of the cemetery to begin property development, circumventing the protest at the entrance.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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Starlink chip scammers might be circumventing Facebook’s fraud systems by not mentioning SpaceX or Starlink in the ad's text.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The Empress Tavern, the basement-level restaurant adjoining the theater which shut down during the pandemic, reopened this spring for private events and concerts hosted by a local nonprofit.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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By 1938, the Netherlands had a 1,170-mile main-road network, 866 miles of which had adjoining cycleways.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The European leader is currently on a tour of the European Union’s nations bordering Russia and Belarus.—
Anders Hagstrom,
FOXNews.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Albania, a socialist country, is in the Balkans, bordering Greece, and has a long coastline along the Adriatic Sea facing Italy.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Whether the Supreme Court fires this blast or not, Republicans need to be aware that breaking up majority-minority districts, and dispersing those voters into neighboring districts to dilute their voting power, may well make those neighboring districts less safe for Republican incumbents.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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How the jackpots got so large The first multi-state lottery was started in 1985 by three small states – Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine – which joined together to better compete with neighboring Massachusetts.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As of Thursday evening, the fire crew successfully encircled the entire perimeter of the fire in control lines.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Many require a minimum perimeter of 320 inches, or more than 26 feet.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Skirting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirting. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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