Avoiding
Stay
Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.
Both words in one sentence
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She should always stay mobile, avoiding enemy fire rather than engaging in protracted firefights.
Source: Video Game / Dirty Bomb - This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers, and trying to stay alive.
Source: Going for the Big Scoop - Following his return to Lianne after avoiding his canon ending, he retains many of his negative qualities, but resigns himself to live the rest of his life in secret imprisonment of his wife's home so that he can stay and protect her and their son.
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