Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Watches
Both words in one sentence
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He watches his Lord get killed, finds his family murdered, gets stabbed in the leg, gets sentenced to the Wall to avoid a harsher punishment, and then discovers that the man who is visiting his adopted family enjoys flaying people for fun.
- To avoid both Mutual Extermination and worldwide Witch Hunts, neither side can be allowed to prevail, and so the system of the Watches has been put into place for the counterparts to monitor each other.
Source: Creator / Sergey Lukyanenko
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