Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Be in
Both terms in one sentence
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More of an Invoked Trope, however, as neither is actually mad - they are instead pretending to be in order to avoid the requirement for a job.
Source: Napoleon Delusion -
A serious example of this would be in Akira Kurosawa's Ran, where a king survives the seige of his own castle without making any effort to avoid his death.
Source: Strolling Through the Chaos -
In Return to Planet Tad, one of Tad's classmates, Ben Irvin, manages to avoid being cast for a School Play that nobody in the school wants to be in by doing this during his audition.
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Be in and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/be_in
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Be in or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/be_in.
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