refrains (from)

present tense third-person singular of refrain (from)

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avoids
Verb
  • And in recent years, Major League Baseball has been pushing the World Series later into the year as playoffs expand and the league avoids Sunday games so as not to overlap with the NFL.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The agent logs only essential identifiers, avoids storing raw sensor data, caps how much and how often information is recorded, and disables third-party analytics by default.
    Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Refrains (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refrains%20%28from%29. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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