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Meaning of skirt around | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.

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Examples

Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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