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• n  an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
• n  a quick evasive movement
• n  a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• v  make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
  The child dodged the teacher's blow
• v  move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
  the pickpocket dodged through the crowd
• v  avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  He dodged the issue

• It's dodge ball, believe it or not.

• contrivance
• stratagem
• dodging
• scheme
• hedge
• fudge
• evade
• put off
• circumvent
• parry
• elude
• skirt
• duck
• sidestep

News & Articles

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• Dodge recalling nearly 13,000 Darts for stalling in cold weather
  Dodge is recalling nearly 13,000 of its compact Dart sedan to correct a problem with stalling in cold weather.        
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Dodge Avenger Undercuts Kia, Hyundai
  2013 Dodge Avenger is most affordable five-seat mid-size sedan        
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News
• Dodge County buys old school in Mantorville
  MANTORVILLE — Dodge County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a purchase agreement for the old Kasson-Mantorville Intermediate School in Mantorville from Kent and Carole Keller for $595,000
  June 11, 2013 - Post-Bulletin

Quotes

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• Lloyd Blankfein in Times Online
  Of course we didn't dodge the mortgage mess,Blankfein wrote in November 2007. "We lost money, then made more than we lost because of shorts (bets against housing)."
• Jim Tracy in The Associated Press
  We dodged that bullet. But we did not dodge the fracture part of it,Tracy said. "To sit here and try to tell you it's a real box of chocolates, shame on me."