How to Use avoidance in a Sentence
avoidance
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This is the price of avoidance.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026
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That’s not strength; that’s avoidance.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
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But danger does not mean avoidance.
—Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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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
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Both the teens and the adults get a tune up on life-saving skills and crash avoidance.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 7 June 2026
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The movie is a study of how avoidance is its own form of cruelty.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
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This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
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For most of his life, Cooper dealt with grief with avoidance.
—Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
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The best treatment is avoidance.
—Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2025
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Yet what if tuning him out could amount to more than an avoidance technique?
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
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The first line of defense against bear attacks is bear avoidance.
—Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
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Dick conceded that there was some avoidance on his side, too.
—Janet W. Lee, NPR, 7 May 2026
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What guardrails will be put in place to limit avoidance and evasion?
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Some of us may instead fall into avoidance.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Conflict avoidance is not an act of kindness.
—Terina Allen, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
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But the line between tax avoidance and tax evasion is often a grey one.
—Nick Fountain, NPR, 27 May 2026
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The key question raised by billionaires’ tax avoidance is what to do about it.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
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Such avoidance was even greater when the disease symptoms were more severe.
—Francesca Gino, Scientific American, 16 June 2020
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This shift from avoidance to acceptance can strip stigma of its force.
—Emily Tanner, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
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And the avoidance then creates the feeling that nobody cares.
—Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
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His response makes Camilla’s avoidance all the more poignant.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Feb. 2026
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Sometimes being social can be a form of avoidance.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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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
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This style of creative could help curb ad avoidance, which may be seen over time with more polished assets.
—Manuel MacHado, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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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
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And the cost of this avoidance is financial as well as cultural.
—Patrick Jinks, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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That is clearly aimed at raising tax receipts and cracking down on tax avoidance by the wealthy.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
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Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
—Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
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The secret has been surprise and an avoidance of the usual suspects.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
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