Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
See as
Both terms in one sentence
- He goes to great lengths to avoid a fight with anyone he doesn't see as an equal, as seen in his interactions with Eggman's recon camp.
Source: Webcomic / Legacy Of Blaze -
It's fine for Jehovah Witness members to visit the country though, so long as they avoid performing activities that the government see as "recruiting new members".
Source: Banned in China -
So I had a bit of a copyright problem with this bit, see as where usually I avoid musical parody as a matter of principle preferring to keep my work as original as possible, I every now and then quote a more well-known popular song within one of my own less-popular works.
Source: Music / Tim Minchin
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