Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Brooks
Brooks noun - United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963).
Both words in one sentence
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A singer whose real name was Douglas Jackson Brooks changed his name to Doug Stone to avoid confusion with Garth.
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Conklin once uses a variation, when Miss Brooks tries to avoid having him assign some unpaid overtime work.
Source: Radio / Our Miss Brooks -
Comically Inept Healing: In "First Air Course", Miss Brooks purposely invokes this trope to avoid teaching the eponymous program.
Source: Radio / Our Miss Brooks
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Brooks or Avoid. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/brooks.
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