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The traffic information website Bison Fute urged drivers to avoid roads in the Gironde department, where Bordeaux is located, to free up access for emergency services.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Mercedes asked him to pull over immediately after crossing the line, and he parked at Turn One, in an attempt to avoid damaging the engine.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Dr. Ghasemi says the findings do not rule out concerns that governments and companies may focus on consumer behavior to avoid responsibility for larger structural reforms.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

Users, including Fortune 500 companies, are turning to unregulated, possibly purloined “open weight” Chinese AI models to save money and avoid exposing their data to the big domestic labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mrs. Kuen was the last person I wanted to see, but it seemed there was no way to avoid her.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The direct method is simple and avoids several tricky rules that apply to indirect rollovers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026

But in “Event Horizon,” Neill avoids hokeyness in what could otherwise be an extremely hokey film, finding the emotional center in a character whose inner demons become real-life manifestations of Hell.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

"It avoids some kids perhaps going: 'Mummy, or Daddy, why didn't we give the teacher 10 bottles of champagne?'," says Jansson-Boyd.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

A bandanna covers his face for any public appearances, and if an interview isn’t happening in person, he avoids phone or video calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Rachel and Tilly Turkington, from Derrytrasna, County Armagh, regularly visit Craigavon Lakes for walks and trips to the café, but say they have avoided entering the water because of concerns over its quality.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

But she will say that so far the group has avoided using Auto-Tune, the vocal-processing software that she feels has become sadly ubiquitous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Sixteen months later, Carney says he has avoided making a bad deal but critics say it has come at a cost: A series of trade concessions to the U.S. that are beginning to add up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Beta Pictoris d avoided detection for years because it is embedded within one of the brightest debris disks astronomers have ever observed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

So Roz camouflaged herself, she avoided the fields and kept to the trees, and with Brightbill as her guide, she carefully crept north through farm country.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

This suggests that resilience is not simply a matter of avoiding Alzheimer's pathology.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski helped lead his team to an ideal 2-1 road win over the Phillies Tuesday, avoiding overtaxing his arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The 21-year-old is "hyper aware" while in nightclubs - avoiding promoters' cameras and watching for strangers filming - fully aware that any embarrassing moments could end up as content.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

A guiding principle of tax treaties is avoiding double taxation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

I had to find a way to answer that inquiry without compromising my heart’s resolution, while avoiding the temper of a daddy who would not appreciate anything sounding close-to-rude.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan