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Princeton's WordNet

  1. evasion, escape, dodgingnoun

    nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

    "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

  2. dodge, dodging, schemenoun

    a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

  3. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodgingnoun

    deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Wikipedia

  1. dodging

    Dodging and burning are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of select areas on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure. In a darkroom print from a film negative, dodging decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while burning increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.Any material with varying degrees of opacity may be used, as preferred, to cover and/or obscure the desired area for burning or dodging. One may use a transparency with text, designs, patterns, a stencil, or a completely opaque material shaped according to the desired area of burning/dodging. Many modern digital image editing programs have "dodge" and "burn" tools that mimic the effect on digital images.

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  1. dodging

    Dodging generally refers to the act of avoiding something by moving swiftly out of its way or eluding it. It can be applied in physical contexts such as avoiding a physical object in motion, or in non-physical contexts such as avoiding a question, responsibility or particular situation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dodging

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dodging in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dodging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of dodging in a Sentence

  1. Michael Tran:

    This prevents the impending car crash that was happening in slow motion, dodging that iceberg is extremely constructive. But in the near-term, we continue to be plagued by the coronavirus.

  2. Jim Jones:

    His wife made a comment one time in a letter that she was tired of sitting around at home doing nothing, and he said, ‘Well, I’m tired of dodging these damn German shells.’ But that was the only time that he ever shared anything with her.

  3. Tiffany Walden:

    We got caught up in the fire of this conversation about Black journalists and when people started implying that the mayor was dodging the hard questions and was taking refuge in the Black community.

  4. Mehmet Oz:

    John Fetterman has been ducking, dodging these debates, which is insulting to the voters of Pennsylvania, and he has to own the reasons for his desire to avoid a debate with me. Either he's healthy, which he says he is, and doesn't want to answer for his radical positions in past statements, or he's lying about his health.

  5. Isang Smith:

    No games in the concrete jungle streets, be fully focused on cars, pedestrians and dodging piles of dog poo.

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