Avoid in example sentence

And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them? (Laughter) You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady": Stick to the weather and your health.

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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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