SHUFFLES (OUT OF) Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

shuffles (out of)

verb

present tense third-person singular of shuffle (out of)

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery I don't know how the CEO managed to shuffle out of being held responsible for his company's weak performance

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Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of avoids

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Neither of those interpretations would be entirely invalid, exactly, and yet The Basics of Philosophy — ironically enough, given its title — mostly evades any such moral didacticism.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
Journalists and negotiators follow up when someone evades the point.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of evades

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In the book, a fictional AI escapes its lab, runs copies of itself on machines no one is watching, and eventually releases a virus over time.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Network-level protections provide another barrier if an agent escapes its initial sandbox.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

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