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Recent Examples of skirt
Noun
The high neck and short mini skirt were the ideal high fashion pairing. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Sep. 2025 This cotton mixed media tank dress is made from a soft and light cotton modal blend and a 100 percent organic poplin skirt. Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
Much of the rest of the hike was dry and traversed gentle gravel bars or smooth limestone expanses, skirting the edges of grassy bluffs and rocky cliffs. Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025 While interest-bearing tokens are prohibited from being issued by stablecoin issuers, exchanges can offer rewards to stablecoin holders and skirt this prohibition. Owen Tedford, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skirt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirt
Noun
  • For years, cybersecurity focused on perimeter defenses.
    Max Silber, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mobile check-in allows guests to bypass the lobby and go straight to their rooms using the hotel’s app, if desired.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • If platforms don’t support how work actually gets done—like handoffs, lead qualification or follow-up timing—users will bypass them.
    Al Sefati, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Clippers have publicly suggested that there is evidence the team did not circumvent salary rules.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Taylor and Travis fall somewhere between the two, with their previous owner evidently looking to circumvent the shelter's current system for taking in pets.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Eaton reconnected to her faith at 27, after her mother passed away, and joined a music group at her church in Denver.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Soliman had been swept into custody, joining a record 61,000 people now in ICE detention.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tusk also said some of the drones had crossed from Belarus, a Kremlin ally that borders both Ukraine and Poland.
    Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Belarus is Russia's closest ally, bordering NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and has been used as a staging post for Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The attack was widely condemned in the Middle East and beyond as an act that could escalate tensions in a region already on edge.
    Jarrett Renshaw, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, edge computing will gain, too.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, by sharing so much of Lisa's code, the interface practically demanded a pointing device, and the mouse was selected, even though Raskin had so carefully tried to avoid it.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • These writers will work under the latest Public Television Freelance Agreement, which the WGA East ratified in December after a lengthy and sometimes contentious negotiation cycle with PBS, narrowly avoiding a strike.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The discovery adds a new dimension to understanding cancer and therapy resistance, where cells often evade treatment by shifting states.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But Moscow has found ways to evade these.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Skirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirt. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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