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Recent Examples of skirt
Noun
The gown also featured an elegant scoop neckline and a long skirt that nearly touched the floor. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 Some splice skirts and jeans into one garment. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
The Lace Skirt Making the lace skirt fall-appropriate is all about balancing delicacy and edge. Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025 This provided a simple way to skirt confounding variables, such as genetics and environmental factors, to which siblings would have similar exposure. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skirt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirt
Noun
  • Shot creation shouldn’t be a problem, but perimeter shooting could be.
    CJ Moore, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These events underscore ongoing challenges in securing these bases, particularly when personnel bring personal weapons, mental health issues arise, or external assailants breach security perimeters.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In that window, developers filed 25 builder’s remedy applications (22 of which are still in process)—projects that can bypass local zoning.
    Belal Aftab, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The deep-water port will allow large Chinese cargo and energy ships to bypass the Strait of Malacca, the narrow waterway between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore through which China conducts two-thirds of its maritime trade and imports 80 percent of its oil.
    Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The federal government argued that the lower courts were circumventing the power of the justices and improperly limiting the authority of the Department of Homeland Security.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Tom Worthington, from the Australian National University’s School of Computing, said circumventing a shutdown that appeared to have been ordered by the country’s Taliban leader would be risky for ordinary Afghans.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • States Say Huge Cuts Arbitrary In the new case, the suing states—led by Illinois and joined by California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and others—say DHS responded to Smith’s ruling by abruptly reallocating hundreds of millions of dollars away from them.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Those cuts have left some families who had been hoping to join trials of new treatments scrambling to find other options.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The vote had outsize importance because of Moldova’s strategic location bordering Ukraine and NATO-member Romania, along with a long-running domestic conflict that has seen a breakaway region align with Moscow.
    Semafor Events, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The other is much larger and exists on the western slopes of the mountain ranges bordering the Pacific from Alaska southward to Northern California.
    Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Refrain from entering water that may have electricity in it and avoid walking through floodwaters.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Engelbert said Friday that the league and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association continue to meet and negotiate with the hopes of avoiding a work stoppage.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Slimy Lunch Meats Lunch meats are one of those things that often evade clean-outs.
    Heather Bien, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But when the Coast Guard approached on a 45-foot response boat, authorities said, the cuddy cabin boat began racing south to evade arrest.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Skirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirt. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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