Avoid in example sentence

During the autopsy, the family man Lieutenant Commander Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Public Health Service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty-eight hours to avoid an epidemic.

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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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