shirking
- present participle of shirk.
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
The board's chair, Ciaran Mulgrew, said it had been across all the problems since before 2023 and he said "no-one is shirking responsibility".
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
"I ken that. I don't like it thought that I'm shirking me duties."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
