SKIRTS Synonyms: 149 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of skirt

as in edges

the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something an old shack on the skirts of the town

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present tense third-person singular of skirt

as in bypasses

to avoid by going around skirted the construction zone

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as in circumvents

to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness the new bill would make it harder for companies to skirt environmental regulations

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as in adjoins

to be adjacent to the commercial district skirts the river's edge

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as in borders

to serve as a border for the wooden fence that skirts the construction site

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If Musk and Ramsawamy’s group avoids recommending ways to slash benefit programs such as Social Security and spending on the military, that could mean cuts of more than 80% across domestic programs, including food inspections and infrastructure repairs.

William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
This also avoids a brightness instability problem that can afflict the TV’s Standard mode, where the image suffers distracting brightness ‘jumps’ or ‘drops’ when an HDR image cuts abruptly between bright and dark shots.

John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024

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