Avoid in example sentence

Human shame is a very powerful motivator, as is the desire to avoid it, and that's the reason why people, when they're in a state of being watched, make decisions not that are the byproduct of their own agency but that are about the expectations that others have of them or the mandates of societal orthodoxy.

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The fly should learn to avoid the optically reinforced odor.

This means that the policy that the Actor implements now includes an instruction to avoid the odor that's in the right half of the chamber.

It's the thing you'd like to avoid if you can, like to get a machine to do.

So rather than asking, as precaution would demand, what can we do as quickly as possible to avoid potential catastrophe, we ask bizarre questions like this: "What is the latest possible moment we can wait before we begin seriously lowering emissions?

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