as in cheat
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
one of the most artful dodgers in the annals of American crime
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Recent Examples of dodger
The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.
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Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Read more Los angeles dodgers Which Surprise Teams Have The Best Chance to Sign Roki Sasaki?
—Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Abraham Lincoln issued preemptive pardons in the Civil War and Jimmy Carter also preemptively pardoned Vietnam draft-dodgers in 1977.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
In contrast, anonymous digital cash is a tax dodger’s dream.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.
—Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Read more Los angeles dodgers Which Surprise Teams Have The Best Chance to Sign Roki Sasaki?
—Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Abraham Lincoln issued preemptive pardons in the Civil War and Jimmy Carter also preemptively pardoned Vietnam draft-dodgers in 1977.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
In contrast, anonymous digital cash is a tax dodger’s dream.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.
—Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dodger
Noun
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To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr. 2025
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In addition, in the Fall of 2024 the IRS-CI increased its efforts against wealthy tax cheats with actions against 1,600 taxpayers earning more than a million dollars a year which by July of 2024 had already brought in $1 billion in collections.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Steve is out to find the jaguar shark who killed his partner, but Klaus finds his own enemy in a Zissou fan (Owen Wilson) who believes the undersea documentarian is his dad. 10.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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To see how small businesses are responding, Forbes reached out to 10 Shark Tank entrepreneurs across multiple industries, along with each of their celebrity sharks.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Dodger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodger. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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