Avoid in example sentence

But look, if I've learned anything from studying the long history of religious tolerance in the 17th century, it's this: if you're talking about civility as a way to avoid an argument, to isolate yourself in the more agreeable company of the like-minded who already agree with you, if you find yourself never actually speaking to anyone who really, truly, fundamentally disagrees with you, well, you're doing civility wrong.

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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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