avoid
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He appreciates that you can avoid the sun by staying in your car.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
But he warned that pushing too far could backfire: “If something gets too expensive, people will start developing ways to avoid using it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The U.S. and Iran “continue to seek to avoid a return to all-out war and are preserving space for continued negotiations,” Evercore ISI analysts led by Sarah Bianchi said in a note Thursday.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
George Soros famously argued that investors shouldn’t automatically avoid bubbles.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
We knew that anyone and everyone who saw us or met up with us was a danger to us, but we could not avoid them altogether, however hard we tried.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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