avoid
Example Sentences
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Lewandowski was avoiding swiping into the building to stay under his service limit, according to department officials.
And I don’t feel particularly guilty about it, as I surely would have decades ago when our Catholic family religiously avoided meat on Friday and attended church every Sunday morning.
The knee-jerk reaction is to avoid the stock after such a steep selloff.
From Barron's
New plan: Pretend to be from the future and insist that the only way to avoid a calamitous chain of events is if Nirvanna plays a show at the Rivoli.
Instead it ventures into something creator Seth MacFarlane and company usually avoid, genuine pathos.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
