Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Digging
Digging noun - The act of digging.
Both words in one sentence
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She then plays dumb so as to avoid her friend digging deeper and getting more suspicious.
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Digging for other deposits would somewhat defeat the purpose of the mission, which is to avoid the industrialization that ruined the future.
Source: Thunderbolt Iron - One of the Japanese Transformers incarnations had an archaeologist beg Optimus to avoid destroying the digging site.
Source: Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Cite this Source
Digging and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/digging
Avoid & Digging. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/digging>.
Digging or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/digging.
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