Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They take steps to avoid killing enemy pilots, and this is what allows Tobia to join them.
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She was forced to join the FBI to avoid prison and was once shot by a narcissistic UnSub.
Source: Series / Criminal Minds -
When Audran ends up being forced to join the police for a while (very much against his will), he finds it hard to avoid becoming useless himself. Sgt.
Source: Literature / Marîd Audran
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