Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Decide on
Both terms in one sentence
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They promptly decide on complete wardrobe makeovers to avoid association with the idiots on the printed page.
Source: Your Costume Needs Work -
They decide on a codeword to avoid future "misunderstandings".
Source: Series / Wiseguy - Only when this plan didn't work out as he'd hoped and all the disruption and division he'd been trying to avoid happened anyway did he finally decide on a somewhat more radical course, and then only as it came to be to his political advantage.
Source: Fair for Its Day
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