How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun
  • 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
  • The movie is a study of how avoidance is its own form of cruelty.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Good, then, that the S6 is the first vac available with poop-avoidance tech—our term, not Roborock’s.
    — The Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2020
  • And the avoidance then creates the feeling that nobody cares.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For most of his life, Cooper dealt with grief with avoidance.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the end, these behaviors are some form of avoidance.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The subject of tax avoidance has grown in recent years.
    — Time, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The first line of defense against bear attacks is bear avoidance.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Josh O’Connor, who currently stars as the prince, is just as intrigued by Charles’ avoidance of a mid-day snack as the rest of the world is.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • But airlines say fee avoidance is far from the whole story.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • In December, there was cross-the-aisle talk to close a tax-avoidance loophole used by crypto traders to fund the bill.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But some of those crash avoidance features are easier to get on the BMW.
    — Carlos Lago, Edmunds, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018
  • The Roth is considered the more powerful tax-avoidance tool for the wealthy.
    — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
  • There is no shortage of clever tax avoidance tricks that have been blessed by either the courts or the IRS itself.
    — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The secret has been surprise and an avoidance of the usual suspects.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Tax avoidance has, of course, been cornerstone of Trump-era GOP.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
  • Matt Chambers walked over to his ride nearby, lacrosse stick and helmet in hand and a shred of avoidance in his eyes.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • The key question raised by billionaires’ tax avoidance is what to do about it.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • The first is from Tesla: Some of this is silly, for sure, like the avoidance of a human writing a ticket.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This is the avoidance approach rather than the tolerance approach of woody plants.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Right now the best advice for tsunami avoidance on a ship is to either run the ship aground and hope for the best, or head for deeper ocean and hope for the best.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Most of us will approach the emergence of Brood X with avoidance and annoyance.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
  • The avoidance of a wider war has been an achievement of the Biden Administration.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But the avoidance of probate is often suggested to minimize cost and time delays.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Many of these boycotts have been driven by progressive groups who have expressed concerns over workers' rights and company tax avoidance, as well as backlash to companies scaling back diversity hiring commitments.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025

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