Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
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Both words in one sentence
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In Night Probe (part of the Dirk Pitt Adventures), the British bring one of their old spies out of retirement, who had changed his name to Brian Shaw to avoid assassination attempts.
Source: Lawyer-Friendly Cameo - If you want to avoid an argument do not, under any circumstances, bring up who Sonic characters should be dating.
Source: Broken Base / Sonic the Hedgehog -
He later lets himself be robbed by a bunch of favela gangbangers to avoid the attention a gunfight might bring.
Source: Video Game / Max Payne
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