avoidance

But Federico suggests that avoidance may actually do the most harm in exacerbating trauma symptoms.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

If I had to guess, your mom is making assumptions partly out of convenience and avoidance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

ETFs scratch other itches too, including tax avoidance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Or is it what we call avoidance when we want avoidance to sound principled?

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

For his part, Jefferson kept repeating the avoidance argument he had fashioned in 1805.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In worry exposure the person is told to set a daily time to purposefully seat in a "worry chair" and think repeatedly about the thoughts that are anxiety provoking without engaging in distractions or avoidances.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016

Superstitions are not free—rituals and avoidances cost an animal in terms of energy or lost opportunities.

From US News ● Jun. 8, 2011

Mr. Marsh's aspect, if anything, pleased her; she liked these avoidances of the commonplace.

From The Emancipated by George Gissing

SOCRATES: They say that what the school of Philebus calls pleasures are all of them only avoidances of pain.

From Philebus by Benjamin Jowett

You have merely to drug it, you have merely to caress it with interminable platitudes, or else with the most uplifting avoidances of anything which happens to be unprintably rational.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell