See skirt around on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "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.",
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"word": "dance around"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíbì",
"sense": "circumvent",
"word": "迴避 /回避"
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"word": "skirt around"
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"word": "vältellä"
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"sense": "circumvent",
"word": "taku"
}
],
"word": "skirt around"
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