How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun

• Risk avoidance has been the province of brand safety and suitability.
  — Greg Garunov, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• Most of us will approach the emergence of Brood X with avoidance and annoyance.
  — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
• Rather than total retrieval-cue avoidance, try a technique called thought substitution.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• But the statute was poorly written and includes several exceptions, which has resulted in a lot of tax avoidance.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
• The first photograph, a black and white image, was taken by an obstacle avoidance camera installed in front of the Mars rover.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2021
• The plan is for parents to raise some 20 chicks that will receive training on forest food sources, the peril of predators and avoidance of power lines.
  — David Biller, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Other key features of the campaign were the avoidance of soft bedding or blankets in cribs, along with crib bumpers, decorative pillows, toys, or anything else.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• The constant near-avoidance of despair is a delicate trade, and Andersson’s sense of direction is not unerring.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• And unlike many of those films, its avoidance of forgiveness as a simple fix in turn avoids shifting the responsibility of the sin away from the sinner to the victim.
  — Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• The New York Times details numerous tax avoidance schemes allegedly carried out by Trump and his siblings.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 May 2021
• However, more expensive models are generally equipped with advanced features like smart mapping and obstacle avoidance.
  — Camryn Rabideau, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The avoidance of a wider war has been an achievement of the Biden Administration.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024