Dodged

Last night, she again dodged a question about Social Security solvency and began a canard about tax cuts instead. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bush is saying he probably heard about the bullet being dodged from the airwaves because everyone has proven them to be lying about reading it in the papers like brownie first saidhe did. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Luck,” Steven shouted, as Christy barely dodged a kamikaze pizza-delivery guy on a bike that swerved between the ambulance and her Mercedes. ❋ Karen Quinn (2007)

Still the possibility of three to six inches of rainfall; but certainly we hate to use that expression dodged the bullet, but we did -- Miles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

CNN's John King, the first team in there, along with photojournalist Dave Ross (ph), the best in the business there in Everglades City, giving you a sense of what appears to be a bullet dodged, which is we say that very tentatively because we still have yet to really assess the damage in the wake of Wilma. ❋ Unknown (2005)

C, which is what I think you referenced, and other divisive issues, he kind of dodged that question. ❋ Jason Salzman (2011)

One of them, standing in front of the camera, "dodged" balls that appeared on the TV screen, sent by the two other players from their Windows phones. ❋ AP (2011)

"We kind of dodged a bullet," said Bill Drzal, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service. ❋ Kris Maher (2010)

By way of update -- Hurricane Tomas dumped rain and flooded already-battered towns like Leogane over the weekend but the island's said to have "dodged" the worst. ❋ Laura Flanders (2010)

Food preparation cling wrap wound onto bent coat hangers can be "dodged" during some of the exposures to make unique images. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Why do you think she kind of dodged the question in that Palin-esque way that she did and not give an emphatic no? ❋ Unknown (2009)