Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Avoid and lose are semantically related in escape from topic. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Lose".
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- Although his personality was still the same — he really didn't work well with the Scouts and tried to avoid or lose them at every opportunity.
Source: Characterization Marches On -
Similarly, Miura and Hattori, as Miura tends to lose his temper more easily than the much calmer Hattori does, as while Miura is cautioned to avoid letting artists see him lose his composure, it's noted that Hattori angrily reacting to Mashiro and Takagi going mainstream is unusual for him.
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They also lose their memory of what happened while summoned to avoid any whacky time paradoxes.
Source: Doppelgänger Attack
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Lose and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/lose
Avoid & Lose. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/lose>.
Lose or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/lose.
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