Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Working with is an antonym for avoid.
Working with
Both terms in one sentence
- Agent Shigeki Arakawa from the JGSDF in Patlabor 2 is working for the government while supposedly working with Tsuge, while supposedly working with Gotoh, while trying to appear innocent of Tsuge's terrorist acts as to avoid repercussions.
Source: Double Reverse Quadruple Agent -
Still, as a detective working with the police, he needs to keep it secret to avoid getting out of the investigation.
Source: It's Personal -
She did so to avoid the Unfortunate Implications of a teenage girl working with a man in the 80s, and her fear that he wouldn't have taken her as a sidekick knowing she was a girl.
Source: Literature / The Posterchildren
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Working with or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/working_with.
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