Have skirted the risk
That does not mean that European nations are not feeling the pain, or have skirted the risk that https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/04/world/europe/other-european-nations-try-to-fight-rising-prices-as-fears-of-social-unrest-grow.html?searchResultPosition=3, fracturing their unity against the Kremlin this winter.
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Does "have skirted the risk" mean "to ignore the risk" in the sentence above?
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avoid, narrowly escape
- avoid, narrowly escape
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anonymousThat does not mean that European nations ... have skirted the risk that the energy crunch could sow social unrest,
~ That does not mean that European nations have avoided the danger that a scarcity of energy may cause a lot of citizens to become angry,
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0To skirt something is to avoid it by going around it near its edges. I can't say I think it fits in that sentence. It reads like he wanted to avoid the pedestrian "avoid"—thesaurusitis.
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