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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shirk .
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Examples
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Mr. Dimon, by contrast, immersed himself in every detail of his acquisitions, fought to get prices that made hard financial sense and never shirked from the consequences.
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Earlier authors, in short, shirked the real problem of marriage, they ended where they should have begun.
Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community.
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The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community.
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The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community.
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COOMBS: I was, you know at first I just kind of shirked it off and I laughed and said, you know, just somebody else slamming the 9/11 widows.
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They smiled at each other with chummy remembrance of many a family festival they had "shirked" together in the old days.
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At the same time, the Inter Press Agency reported that while Panetta failed to obtain agreement from Israel that it would not attack Iran without first informing Washington, Obama has shirked any responsibility for Israel's action in that he "had no say" over Israel "as a sovereign country."
Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle
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At the same time, the Inter Press Agency reported that while Panetta failed to obtain agreement from Israel that it would not attack Iran without first informing Washington, Obama has shirked any responsibility for Israel's action in that he "had no say" over Israel "as a sovereign country."
Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle
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At the same time, the Inter Press Agency reported that while Panetta failed to obtain agreement from Israel that it would not attack Iran without first informing Washington, Obama has shirked any responsibility for Israel's action in that he "had no say" over Israel "as a sovereign country."
Renee Parsons: Looking at Israel's Nuclear History as US Sabers Rattle
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