Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Hail
Hail verb - To declare enthusiastic approval of.
Common collocations
| work | avoid work | hail work |
Both words in one sentence
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Similarly, the rhinos also send down an eye-popping hail of Arrows on Fire, only to have Tai Lung avoid these too by dodging underneath the only protection available, the wooden elevator.
Source: Rain of Arrows -
During the famous scene in which the Qin army barrage the calligraphy school with arrows, the soldiers' cries were changed from "hail" to "storm" in the Miramax release to avoid a Nazi connotation.
Source: Film / Hero - In The Matrix Reloaded, the heroes appear to have escaped through a door just in time to avoid a hail of gunfire from the army of Smiths chasing them.
Source: Mortal Wound Reveal
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