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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dodge.

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Examples

  • Last night, she again dodged a question about Social Security solvency and began a canard about tax cuts instead.

    Sound Politics: Post Debate and Beyond 2006

  • Bush is saying he probably heard about the bullet being dodged from the airwaves because everyone has proven them to be lying about reading it in the papers like brownie first saidhe did.

    Think Progress » After Levees Failed, Bush Had “A Sense of Relaxation” 2005

  • A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • “Luck,” Steven shouted, as Christy barely dodged a kamikaze pizza-delivery guy on a bike that swerved between the ambulance and her Mercedes.

    Wife in the Fast Lane Karen Quinn 2007

  • “Luck,” Steven shouted, as Christy barely dodged a kamikaze pizza-delivery guy on a bike that swerved between the ambulance and her Mercedes.

    Wife in the Fast Lane Karen Quinn 2007

  • Still the possibility of three to six inches of rainfall; but certainly we hate to use that expression dodged the bullet, but we did -- Miles.

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2006 2006

  • CNN's John King, the first team in there, along with photojournalist Dave Ross (ph), the best in the business there in Everglades City, giving you a sense of what appears to be a bullet dodged, which is we say that very tentatively because we still have yet to really assess the damage in the wake of Wilma.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005 2005

  • C, which is what I think you referenced, and other divisive issues, he kind of dodged that question.

    Jason Salzman: What Kind of "Real Conservative" Will Be the Next Dick Wadhams Jason Salzman 2011

  • C, which is what I think you referenced, and other divisive issues, he kind of dodged that question.

    Jason Salzman: What Kind of "Real Conservative" Will Be the Next Dick Wadhams Jason Salzman 2011

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