as in skirting
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Recent Examples of runaround
Exorbitant legal fees and bureaucratic runarounds require property owners to follow a list of tedious rules to reclaim their property.
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Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 July 2024
That’s when Rambo started to give them the runaround, Patel said.
—Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
In today’s crossword, Trent H. Evans gives us the runaround, using a distinctive theme style.
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
And increasingly what's happened, of course, with a divided Congress and a divided Washington is presidents of all strikes, not just Democrats, have wanted to try to do runarounds around Congress a little bit.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
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Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 July 2024
That’s when Rambo started to give them the runaround, Patel said.
—Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
In today’s crossword, Trent H. Evans gives us the runaround, using a distinctive theme style.
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
And increasingly what's happened, of course, with a divided Congress and a divided Washington is presidents of all strikes, not just Democrats, have wanted to try to do runarounds around Congress a little bit.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for runaround
Noun
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All the moral skirting of the issues at hand felt so rich.—
Dwyer Murphy
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
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Hinson said the skirting of tariffs undermined an Illinois auto company’s business, forcing it to lay off a quarter of its workforce.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Many would have to raise their taxes as most do not allow for deficit spending (for the federal government, the optimal cop-out).—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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Of course, there will always be times when a company catches you by surprise and lists your name along with other underperforming employees in a cop-out to cover their atrocious layoffs.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
Noun
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They were found guilty in June 2022 of not only bank fraud and tax evasion, but also conspiring to defraud the IRS.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
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This distinction often leads to taxpayers’ confusion when assessing the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Verdugo also walked twice, the last with two outs in the seventh inning when the game was called.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2025
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Early-game chants prompted by the scoreboard were hardly followed but key plays like Tyler Soderstrom’s triple with one out in the third inning and Denzel Clarke stretching a single to center into a double with two outs in the second inning, led to big crowd reactions.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
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“Runaround.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runaround. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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