Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Nose
Nose verb - To interest oneself in what is not one's concern.
Usage example: a neighbor who likes to nose around and discover everyone's secrets
Both words in one sentence
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Don't Try This at Home: A footnote about fireworks safety to avoid exploding your nose.
Source: Discworld / Interesting Times - In one, a (CGI) child's sore nose flees around to the back of its head, to avoid being assaulted by an ordinary un-lotion-impregnated tissue.
Source: Organ Autonomy -
In Daughter of the Lioness, Aly deliberately scars herself and breaks her nose when enslaved to avoid being sold for sex.
Source: Scars Are Forever
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