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Justice Lokur added that despite Indian law protecting social media companies from being held liable for content uploaded by users, "the platform cannot, cannot shirk its responsibility".

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

The government's counsel, Jenkin Suen, told the inquiry that authorities would not shirk responsibility and pledged "systemic reforms".

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

And yet, both Andie and Iona shirk their individuality for stability, leaving those singular, oh-so-charming elements of their characters in the dust when wealthy men come calling.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

There’s a spiritual community that uses spirituality to shirk responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial responsibilities and print what they think their readers want.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Too many misplaced passes but never hides or shirks responsibility.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

But she never shirks from the hard facts of the Du Bois history, or that of blackness in this country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The “experiment” — Smith shirks at the word performance — is designed, he says, for believers and nonbelievers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

Lawmakers had vowed to tackle the long-acknowledged fact that Washington shirks its obligation to cover the aides, therapy, special schools and other accommodations that 158,863 children with disabilities need in order to learn.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

The fact is, that the modern author shirks his responsibilities, following the practice of the greatest writers of our day.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

The 437-page report written by a panel of three judges in 2021 found that the state had shirked its duty to protect Caruana Galizia and subjected her to personal attacks and verbal abuse from politicians.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Rather than implement industry-standard detection tools used by its peers, Apple repeatedly shirked their responsibility to protect children under the guise of user privacy,” the West Virginia Attorney General’s Office said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

But when one vice signals, the out-group’s values take center stage — in order to be shirked rather than lived up to.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

On the other hand, England under Stokes and McCullum have not shirked big selection decisions.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Julie was out of hearing, but she was busy over some quest of her own, and she had shirked work as well as the others.

From Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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

One-time hick-hop rapper Jelly Roll is old hat at songs to soundtrack shirking child support payments, but he’s found a bit of a new lane in the path blazed by Wallen.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

“Such a shirking trick in a workman employed to keep the terraces clean should be a criminal offence.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson