to be avoided
Example Sentences
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As for your dinner: Anyone who minimizes your agency — whether it’s a friend or an acquaintance who is selling you something — is to be avoided.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
And the rest of the world is something to be avoided.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
A staffer from lead contractor ECC asks for important property details: Are there septic tank lids or propane tanks that need to be avoided?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025
“No storm was to be avoided because it appeared too large or too violent,” a senior analyst for that endeavor, the Thunderstorm Project, later said at a meeting of the National Weather Association.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2024
For my father, doctors had never brought good news and therefore were to be avoided.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
