Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Conceive
Conceive verb - To form a mental picture of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They either can't conceive of it as such or avoid the realization because they subconsciously know it would give them a Heroic B.S.O.D.
Source: Tragic Dream -
His efforts to win Hekat's love are even more doomed by the fact she had to lie with a man she absolutely hated and despised, the high godspeaker Nagarak (due to having earlier gelded Vortka on a spiritual level to avoid future competition for Zandakar), in order to conceive him.
Source: Literature / Godspeaker Trilogy
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