as in to avoid
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
you won't be able to weasel out of your share of the work by feigning illness
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Take extra caution when on the road or avoid driving if possible.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Refrain from entering water that may have electricity in it and avoid walking through floodwaters.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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D'Angelo explained exactly what had happened to make that scene, in which a squirrel leaps out of the family tree, prompting the family to run around the house to try and evade it.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Analysts say Pyongyang’s focus now appears to be on refining payload capacity and survivability to ensure its arsenal can evade US and allied missile defenses.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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With roughly 180 resorts spread across its atolls, there are dozens of worthy five-star escapes to choose from.—
Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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Auger-Aliassime played some of his best tennis since the early 2020s in the second and fourth sets, winning the former and having Sinner on the edge of going a break down for 3-1 in the latter, before the Italian escaped.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Weasel (out of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weasel%20%28out%20of%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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