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[skurt] / skɜrt /






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Booysen also had several outfit changes throughout the day, including a white mini dress with a sparkly bodice and feathered skirt for cutting the cake, and an off-the-shoulder satin look for later in the evening.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

If it was less than two sizes too large, I wasn’t putting it on; if I wore a skirt, it was with jeans underneath it.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Dressed in a white top, pink skirt and matching shoes, Williams arrived on court to cheers and a standing ovation from the capacity crowd in the Andy Murray Arena.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 2026

Hermès leather goods were on display, including on Keyla, who wore a vintage black skirt with zippers running up the front and back and a suede top.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

I noticed she was wearing an expensive-looking new gown with the widest skirt I’d ever seen.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Instead, Oman has been operating a channel through the strategic waterway that runs through its territorial waters and skirts the lanes managed by Tehran.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Chunky platform sandals, fitted baby tees, butterfly clips on perfectly crimped hair, brightly patterned skirts and tons of sparkles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Years before “Barbie” stormed movie houses, Elle was the subversive answer to whether a woman’s love of makeup, pastel colors, skirts and heels negated her feminism.

From Salon Jul. 6, 2026

So, you should wear trousers or skirts with a fabric that does not allow sunlight through, a top with long sleeves, a sun hat and sunglasses.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

But the nanny gave him a sharp jerk to keep him near her serge skirts.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

But some reports allege that DeepSeek skirted the ban to train V4 using thousands of Nvidia's top-end Blackwell chips, dismantled in third countries and smuggled to China.

From Barron's Apr. 9, 2026

Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 22, 2026

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

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

Owen and George limped along on three legs again, breathing hard and not talking as they skirted the edge of a frozen lake.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The vehicles drove right over his fields at speed, tearing up the crops and skirting the fence by the family's garden.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

It lays out what’s required to get generous tax breaks on sales, and it also shows just how deep the IRS can dig if it suspects taxpayers are skirting the law.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

With the leak's Maryland location upriver from Washington, much of it found its way to the waters skirting the US capital.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

I rushed back to my room, skirting past my parents and their ever-growing dark matter, and got to work on mapping out a plan.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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