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scapes

verb

present tense third-person singular of scape

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery the queen has vowed that none of the traitors shall scape the gallows, be their station ever so high

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Keser Clinic avoids mega-sessions, preferring to split large cases across multiple days rather than attempting very high graft counts in a single sitting.

— Burak Onal, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Closing the tax code’s carveouts to special interests would help, but there is no path to sustainability that avoids cutting (or slowing the growth of) benefits, raising eligibility ages to reflect longer lives and putting Medicare on a budget.

— Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of avoids

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Neither of those interpretations would be entirely invalid, exactly, and yet The Basics of Philosophy — ironically enough, given its title — mostly evades any such moral didacticism.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
Journalists and negotiators follow up when someone evades the point.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of evades

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Late escapes kept South Carolina State and North Carolina Central unbeaten in MEAC play ahead of their meeting.

— Wilton Jackson, AJC.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Throughout the electoral and political process, there have been deals made and money spent across the country — but no one escapes scrutiny.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026

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