How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun
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  • Humphries told Futurism that there was no time for an avoidance maneuver.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But there is no evidence the mutation is linked to the consumption of raw milk or the avoidance of vaccines.
    — Nate Trela, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The avoidance of darker skin plays into the colorism, or discrimination of same-race people based on their skin color.
    — Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Starlink hasn’t revealed details about their AI collision avoidance system.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • In the meantime, mitigations like masking, distancing, and crowd avoidance are critical.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Tax avoidance, censorship, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how the platform handles users' data are just the start of the dizzying list.
    — Lisa Montenegro, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • That, to me, felt like an avoidance of some of the tropes around this kind of story.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
  • The movie is a study of how avoidance is its own form of cruelty.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And the avoidance then creates the feeling that nobody cares.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For most of his life, Cooper dealt with grief with avoidance.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And that her avoidance of hosting the group is impolite and unfair to the rest of us?
    — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In the end, these behaviors are some form of avoidance.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The subject of tax avoidance has grown in recent years.
    — Time, 28 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a lot of cleaning up of past deeds and misdeeds (and, notably, some avoidance to do the same).
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • The first line of defense against bear attacks is bear avoidance.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • In December, there was cross-the-aisle talk to close a tax-avoidance loophole used by crypto traders to fund the bill.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The Roth is considered the more powerful tax-avoidance tool for the wealthy.
    — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Tax avoidance has, of course, been cornerstone of Trump-era GOP.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
  • Matt Chambers walked over to his ride nearby, lacrosse stick and helmet in hand and a shred of avoidance in his eyes.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • The key question raised by billionaires’ tax avoidance is what to do about it.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • The first is from Tesla: Some of this is silly, for sure, like the avoidance of a human writing a ticket.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Right now the best advice for tsunami avoidance on a ship is to either run the ship aground and hope for the best, or head for deeper ocean and hope for the best.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Most of us will approach the emergence of Brood X with avoidance and annoyance.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
  • The avoidance of a wider war has been an achievement of the Biden Administration.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Two defining features of the 2023 Orioles were their comeback wins and avoidance of sweeps.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Not that there weren't lies and misstatements and above all avoidance Tuesday night.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
  • As for what not to do, Dr. Williams warns against a common reaction: avoidance.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 8 May 2024
  • And despite your creative avoidance strategies, travel companies – particularly airlines – seem more addicted to fees than ever.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024

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