How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun
Definition of avoidancenext
Synonyms for avoidancenext
  • That is clearly aimed at raising tax receipts and cracking down on tax avoidance by the wealthy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But Democrats argue Trump’s plan didn’t do nearly enough to prevent tax avoidance.
    — Laura Davison, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That is clearly aimed at raising tax receipts by cracking down on tax avoidance by companies and the wealthy.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Tax avoidance strategies include a mix of old standards and new innovations.
    — Patricia Cohen, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Andy and the captain had long since developed a collision-avoidance system.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The avoidance of such statements is symptomatic of Swedish humbleness.
    — Benedict Browne, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2021
  • These strategies include offshore tax avoidance, which may have waned after stricter reporting requirements took effect about a decade ago.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Simplifying the estate tax could put an end to many loopholes and complicated tax-avoidance strategies.
    — Next Avenue, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • All of these shifts, in turn, have led some observers and regulators to prioritize harm avoidance over unfettered expression.
    — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • By comparing the various data sets, the researchers were able to make new estimates of tax avoidance across the income distribution.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Symptoms may look like avoidance behavior, flashbacks (which is a re-experience of the trauma), nightmare, or hyper-startle response.
    — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
  • That avoidance is precisely the problem, says the Rev. Susan Chorley, a Boston-area pastor.
    — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • The Roth is considered the more powerful tax-avoidance tool for the wealthy.
    — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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