Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Gotten
Both words in one sentence
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It's quite clever how he does it: instead of changing decisions outright, which would've gotten him killed, he influences decisions very slightly to avoid detection.
- In the last year or so, the author has at least tried to avoid this; unfortunately, he has not gotten out of copying and pasting the same jokes.
Source: Comic Strip / Marvin -
They avoid this happening by suicidally venturing into the Deep Roads and trying to kill as many Darkspawn there as they can when they feel the taint has gotten too strong.
Source: Blood Magic
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