as in escape
the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable
a candidate who is to be admired for her eschewal of pat answers and quick fixes
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Noun
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The guest rooms were designed to emulate a lakeside escape, while the hotel’s corridor carpets mimic a sandy beach.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026 -
But any book across any genre can be an escape depending on your tastes and preferences.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
23 May 2026
Noun
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Activist spirits might dismiss this emphasis on the purely sonic as a strategy of avoidance, although the likes of Feizabadi and Kourliandski can’t be accused of sitting idly by.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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At its most fundamental, disgust is a pathogen-avoidance mechanism.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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All that’s left are defensive denials, evasions of Nazi collaboration and the faint hope that something higher has survived.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Bill Bratton, who served as the chief of the New York City Transit Police and then as the city’s police commissioner during the crime peak in the 1990s, explicitly attributed his crackdown on petty crimes, such as graffiti and fare evasion, to Kelling and Wilson.—
Elizabeth Glazer,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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“Eschewal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eschewal. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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