avoidance
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Or is it what we call avoidance when we want avoidance to sound principled?
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
He later added that "for the avoidance of doubt" there would be a contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
He praised Powell’s avoidance of engaging in tit for tat with the president.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
It’s a description of a room where groupthink had replaced honest conversation — not through force, but through accumulated avoidance.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Only a familiar territory will allow them to fulfill the two relendess imperatives of the wild: the avoidance of enemies and the getting of food and water.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
She lived again in the waltz; in the gliding motions of it, the delicious fluctuations of the reverse, the long trance-like union, the instinctive avoidances of other contact.
From Leonora by Bennett, Arnold
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 Cabell, James Branch
SOCRATES: They say that what the school of Philebus calls pleasures are all of them only avoidances of pain.
From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin
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