Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Both words in one sentence
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Much like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, they're also smart enough to avoid an electrified fence...and to force it down when the electrical power is off.
- I want to talk with him about it, and he'd rather avoid that conversation — since it's very likely to involve my hanging his entrails on a fence someplace.
Source: Action Dad / Literature - Garfield once tried to use this trope to avoid the usual Produce Pelting while giving one of his shows on the fence.
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