Avoid and Let alone

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Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

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Let alone and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Let alone" instead a verb "Avoid".

Let alone conjunction - To say nothing of.

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Avoid and let alone are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Avoid" with "Let alone", this conjunctions are similar.

Immortality Immorality: According to Dumbledore, simply fearing death, let alone trying to avoid it, is enough to warp one's soul.

Source: Fan Fic / Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Unreveal: We never DO learn how Soundwave recovered from his injuries so quickly, how Megatron managed to avoid being attacked by Makeshift, or how Megatron learned where Starscream was (let alone how he learned that Starscream had been kidnapped in the first place).

Source: Webcomic / Eons Ago
We're never shown how Superman got Mxyzptlk to say his name backwards, let alone avoid getting hit by the Mini-Mecha.

Source: Western Animation / Superman: The Animated Series

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