1
as in escape
the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable
her congenital avoidance of conflict makes talking about problems with her difficult
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2
as in abolition
the doing away with something by formal action
plans to petition the court for an avoidance of the prenuptial agreement
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Recent Examples of avoidance
And Katharine's studious avoidance of one in particular.
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
The result demonstrated that multi-agent autonomy can function reliably under race pressure, requiring real-time coordination, collision avoidance, and trajectory planning in shared airspace.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
Carter decided to take control of his algorithm and remove all content about avoidance and relationships in general.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
Productive tension gets lumped together with toxic behavior, and the response becomes avoidance instead of engagement.
—Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
The result demonstrated that multi-agent autonomy can function reliably under race pressure, requiring real-time coordination, collision avoidance, and trajectory planning in shared airspace.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
Carter decided to take control of his algorithm and remove all content about avoidance and relationships in general.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
Productive tension gets lumped together with toxic behavior, and the response becomes avoidance instead of engagement.
—Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avoidance
Noun
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Visit the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory for a year-round indoor escape full of lush plants.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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But in their daring escape through the window, the crown of Empress Eugénie slipped from their grasp and was left battered on the pavement below.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 1986, during a summit meeting in Iceland, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan surprised their staffs as well as the world by pledging the abolition of all nuclear weapons.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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In the past year, their silence broken by the abolition of the police force, residents have started trading stories.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Fare gates recently installed at Boston's South Station to combat fare evasion are currently inoperable and covered in plastic.—
Samantha Chaney,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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The files about such a sensitive and complicated series of crimes could be released to the public only by way of a convoluted procedural process, but the process came to seem suspiciously convoluted to many Americans in large part because of the president’s many reversals and evasions.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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As grounds for the permit’s repeal, the city must show that Homeland Security has violated terms of its land-use agreement.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Feb. 2026
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An exception is usually made for Budweiser, because the iconic Clydesdales the beer company has been working with since the repeal of Prohibition (seriously) are stars in their own right.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
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Its defense minister last week reported some 200,000 troop desertions and draft-dodging by about 2 million Ukrainians.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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Its defense minister last week reported some 200,000 troop desertions and draft-dodging by about 2 million Ukrainians.—
Kamila Hrabchuk,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Avoidance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avoidance. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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