Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Ford
Common collocations
| time | avoid time | ford time |
Both words in one sentence
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The first time this happens really dramatically is when the Rangers' posse pursuing the Comanches finds itself menaced from both sides and has to make a dash to the ford to avoid being annihilated.
Source: Film / The Searchers -
To avoid confusion both in-universe and for viewers, the Stan they have been living with is still called Grunkle Stan, with the author being Grunkle Ford.
Source: I Knew It - In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Ford and Arthur try to flatter their Vogon captors poetry to avoid being thrown out of the airlock.
Source: I Just Want to Be Loved
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