Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Wading
Wading noun - Walking with your feet in shallow water.
Both words in one sentence
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You'd generally want to avoid wading headfirst into a gunfight, so you might as well just sneak around like a ninja.
Source: Video Game / Crysis -
And 'Clover the Clever' (played by Twilight) is sullen about having 'Princess Platinum' (played by Rarity) ride her to avoid wading in a stream in the Hearth's Warming Eve pageant.
Source: Horsing Around
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