Avoid and Pursue

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Usage example: trying to avoid writing thank-you notes for the gifts he didn't like
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Antonyms for Avoid
Pursue is an antonym for avoid in elude topic.
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Pursue

Pursue verb - To go after or on the track of.
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Synonyms for Pursue
Antonyms for Pursue
Avoid is an antonym for pursue in follow topic.
Nearby Words: pursuit, pursuance, pursuing, pursuer
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Common collocations

work avoid work pursue work
people avoid people pursue people
issue avoid issue pursue issue
time avoid time pursue time
Other words: ending, war, humans.

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / TRON: Uprising She goes back to normal and decides not to pursue things with Beck to avoid any more slips.
    Source: Western Animation / TRON: Uprising
  • Death by Origin Story When her little brother Myouren dies, Buddhist nun Byakuren Hijiri decides to pursue immortality to avoid her own death.
    Source: Death by Origin Story
  • Given the litany of minor crimes that he commits in order to pursue/protect his treasure, Ben Gates finds himself having to avoid lawmen in both National Treasure films.
    Source: Fugitive Arc
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