Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Enlist
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Forcing Kallen to enlist in Britannian bootcamp to avoid execution (and make her useful to him).
Source: Fanfic / Dauntless -
Family Guy portrays him in an extremely negative light, with cutaways showing him as an idiot or a coward (trying to enlist for The Vietnam War years after it ended, hiding in a treehouse to avoid dealing with Hurricane Katrina).
Source: Useful Notes / George W. Bush
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