dodger
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A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
I wear my dodger hat and sit in the same chair for every dodger game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Though he was sometimes labeled a draft dodger, he was very much the opposite.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
But that dodger, as soon as he had caught the woman’s eye and nodded, slipped away to join the ship.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Social media was replete with jokes and memes about fleeing influencers, tax dodgers and crypto bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The mass demonstration follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, with thousands of call-up notices ignored in recent months and several deserters imprisoned.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Indeed, pardons of that kind have been issued by the tens of thousands to former rebels, insurrectionaries, draft dodgers, or deserters after nearly every American domestic or foreign conflict.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
Train ticket inspectors should treat deliberate fare dodgers differently to people who make genuine mistakes, the passenger watchdog has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024
On the way he gets sidetracked into Canada and becomes involved with a bunch of draft dodgers; at the end he goes back to his wife and they renew their vows in a hippie ceremony.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
