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skirted

  • past participle of skirt.
  • past tense form of skirt.
  • a word derived from skirt.

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Adding additional ingredients is how companies that make compounded GLP-1s have skirted the law when those medicines are not in short supply.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Counting the number of rogue vessels that may have skirted the blockade is difficult, due to the conflicting definitions and other factors.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution organization, said that for all Ghalibaf’s strongman bravado, he has skirted political risks.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

It passed near the Caribbean and skirted the US east coast.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

And although many other tournaments in which he’d played may not have included the very top players in the country, there were enough that skirted the summit.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady