Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Turn to
Turn to verb - To use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage.
Both terms in one sentence
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They just keep this a secret from everyone they know, to avoid hurting their feelings, but they secretly know that once it's their turn to pilot Zearth, they only have very little time left to live.
Source: Secretly Dying -
They're constantly seeking new experiences to avoid the Bleaching, a process where they're literally bored to death and turn to dust and bones.
Source: The Fair Folk - Other characters may turn to charity works, travel, writing books, scholarly work, or other ways of becoming Non-Idle Rich to avoid this problem.
Source: Rich Boredom
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Turn to and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/turn_to
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Turn to or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/turn_to.
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