Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Face with
Both terms in one sentence
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She brushes him off, and gets smacked in the face with a ladder being swung around wildly, while Sean tells her what she could've done to avoid that injury:Sean: Sasha...Sasha: Shut up, Sean!
Source: Film / Ready to Rumble - This is hard to do though, as the angels are well aware of this weakness and thus will usually hide their face with their hands to avoid it (hence the "weeping" part of their name).
Source: Shapeshifter Mode Lock - They try to decide which way to tilt their heads to avoid hitting each other's face with their nose, but must first figure out whether it's Jack's left of Janet's left.
Source: Your Other Left
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