Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Faced
Faced adjective - Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination.
Both words in one sentence
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Faced with the possibility of being an unwed mother in 1950's Italy, she kills herself to avoid the inevitable shame.
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The film managed to avoid many problems commonly faced by page-to-screen adaptations, a fact which many critics attributed to P.F.
Source: Literature / The Ugly Barnacle -
The showrunner indicated on Twitter that the series would have a conclusion, allowing the series to avoid the Cut Short scenario faced by so many other cancelled serials.
Source: Series / Last Resort
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