Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Performing any act indicated by skip, in any sense; especially, taking skips or leaps; frisking; hence, flighty; giddy; volatile.
- Characterized by skips or leaps.
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- verb Present participle of
skip .
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Examples
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This month, the President will make his third official overseas visit as President to four Asian countries, including a Muslim majority country, Indonesia, once again skipping Israel and sending the message to the Israeli public that he is uninterested in engaging the Israelis directly.
Alon Ben-Meir: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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This month, the President will make his third official overseas visit as President to four Asian countries, including a Muslim majority country, Indonesia, once again skipping Israel and sending the message to the Israeli public that he is uninterested in engaging the Israelis directly.
Alon Ben-Meir: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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Needless to say, I didn't really care for school, I was more interested in skipping classes or causing trouble which got me kicked out of school in November of 1989.
Robyn N. Cohen: A Tribute to a Special Teacher and a Special School Robyn N. Cohen 2010
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This month, the President will make his third official overseas visit as President to four Asian countries, including a Muslim majority country, Indonesia, once again skipping Israel and sending the message to the Israeli public that he is uninterested in engaging the Israelis directly.
Alon Ben-Meir: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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This month, the President will make his third official overseas visit as President to four Asian countries, including a Muslim majority country, Indonesia, once again skipping Israel and sending the message to the Israeli public that he is uninterested in engaging the Israelis directly.
Alon Ben-Meir: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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Next day Little Red Riding-WJT was again skipping through the forest, plucking her eyepiadder-free mysquil bouquets when the ogre snuck up again and threw her into the deepest dungeon.
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Needless to say, I didn't really care for school, I was more interested in skipping classes or causing trouble which got me kicked out of school in November of 1989.
Robyn N. Cohen: A Tribute to a Special Teacher and a Special School Robyn N. Cohen 2010
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I remember Ben implying that the club holds bigger ‘powers’ than it looks like, and it can hold a key to the final loop (maybe it helps you in someway time-skipping is not now).
The Tail Section » Easter Eggs for “Because You Left” and “The Lie” 2009
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This month, the president will make his third official overseas visit as president to four Asian countries, including a Muslim majority country, Indonesia, once again skipping Israel and sending the message to the Israeli public that he is uninterested in engaging the Israelis directly.
Alon Ben-Meir: Change We Can Believe in Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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In many cases i find the labor saved in skipping the kneading has been made up in cleaning up flour from every bloody surface in the kitchen.
Messing With the Bread Lindy 2007
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He ended up “skipping”: raiding huge containers outside supermarkets looking for food.
‘I was sleeping in laybys’: the people who have spent the pandemic living in vans Simon Hattenstone 2021
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