Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Table
Table verb - Arrange or enter in tabular form.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The French play Treize à table is entirely about a superstitious housemistress trying her damnedest to avoid having thirteen people around the dinner table for Christmas Eve.
Source: 13 Is Unlucky -
Howard's "Shadows In Zamboula", Conan the Barbarian claims to be this, that he hired his room in advance to avoid losing the money to do so at the gambling table.
Source: The Gambling Addict - In season 4 Bianca makes herself extra smelly to avoid getting pat down by the guards for contraband so as punishment they make her stand on the cafeteria table and don't allow her to leave until she physically can't stand.
Source: Denied Food as Punishment
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