shirking

Example Sentences

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"They seem to be shirking their responsibilities all together and saying this is not an issue for us," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

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

"I ken that. I don't like it thought that I'm shirking me duties."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood