Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Meet
Meet verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.
Usage example: we never once met another car on that lonely country road
Nearby Word: meeting
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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However, his role is constructed so that he and Tintin never meet each other to avoid continuity issues.
- The twins try to avoid them but they end up wandering into the adult section and meet Marvin in it.
- They meet years later but he tries to avoid her at first but eventually they reconcile.
Source: Transsexual
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