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[uh-void] / əˈvɔɪd /


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His next holiday will be a cruise leaving from Southampton, allowing him to avoid the stress he associates with flying.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"They should avoid going down the wrong path in the wrong way, only to ultimately suffer the consequences themselves."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Measles patients are ushered to negative-pressure rooms to avoid infecting others in hospitals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

When the researchers genetically silenced the somatostatin neurons, the mice that received the cannabinoid became less likely to avoid the predator odor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

We soon discovered we were not the only ones tramping through the countryside on that long trek westwards, nor the only ones who had chosen to avoid the dangers of the roads.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

While a generation of players build personal brands and chase clicks, the Barcelona and Spain midfielder stays away from social media and avoids the spotlight, talking about tactics the way other players talk about cars.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Managing her wealth through ETFs and deep diversification, she avoids speculative assets like cryptocurrencies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

This sports documentary series often veers toward sensationalistic or at least hyperbolic stories, but this episode largely avoids that trap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Or sneak into his fancy arena in an elaborate costume that avoids detection by facial recognition technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

She avoids my stare, probably because she knows I'm imagining they are lasers and whatever I look at will be forced to spontaneously combust.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

"There's a lot of opinions, and I purposely avoided the original movie and and the book before filming because I hadn't seen it or read it," Summer H Howell, who plays Carrie, tells Newsbeat.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hayley said: "And that's what makes me so angry because that's the bit that could have been avoided."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

In all three cases, as we examine in a paper with Terrence Keeley, the consensus was wrong and the public suffered severe consequences, while the architects of failure avoided accountability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Houthis have largely avoided targeting American or international commercial ships in the region following a 2025 ceasefire with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

While the Indigenous people had avoided the area and called it Tesemini, or Lake of Spirits, European settlers enjoyed the cold, clear water.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

This allows users to avoiding sending sensitive information to the cloud.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

But other than avoiding tick bites, there’s no obvious solution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Having lost De Bruyne, they dropped from second to eighth in the Bundesliga before narrowly avoiding relegation in the subsequent two seasons.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

That means avoiding so-called defensive sectors that don’t defend investors “because they’re stranded assets and because they are similar to bonds,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Dripping and shivering, he sprang back on the seat and rode off, pb-b-b, pb-b-b, avoiding clutching paws.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary




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