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How to use the word AVOID in a Sentence?

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If you want to avoid losing in trading, don't trade.

Sir. Barron Qasem II

added by Aeqasem
2 months ago

It is prudent to avoid foolishness, but unwise to lack wisdom.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

If there is a way, find it. If it is important to you, make time. When it hinders your peace, avoid it. If it gives you life, cherish it and watch how it blooms.

Tristain Shury

added by choozenboy
7 months ago

The further you go, the lonelier it gets. Avoid distractions and focus on your goal. Many days you will find yourself lost in the process, but ask God for strength and guidance. Welcome the obstacles and embrace the journey. Never let fear consume you, for your will to succeed is much greater.

Tristain Shury

added by choozenboy
7 months ago

People need to have a sense of agency in order to avoid having a stress response, when people don’t know what’s going to happen and they don’t have any control over what’s going to happen, it can lead to anxiety and to increase levels of stress.

Dennis Stolle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Xi will find in Lula a BRICS enthusiast, openness to reforms in the global governance system and the desire to avoid automatic alignment with the US.

Luiza Duarte

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that it is very common that a large range of chemicals are formed whenever plastic materials are burned, including styrene, benzene, and a wide number of polyaromatic hydrocarbons – all of these are strong carcinogens, and it’s important for people to avoid exposures.

Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hippos usually come out of water late in the evening and at night to forage, so avoid trekking along the river at that time.

Philip Muruthi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most people avoid you because they can’t afford you.

Jachi Michael

added by Seanbean
1 year ago

If you can manage the relationship between Beijing and Taipei well, then that will – to some extent – reduce the pressure from that kind of dollar diplomacy, if both sides can reach some sort of tacit understanding … then we will avoid that kind of bad situation.

Taipei Mayor Chiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the central bank doesn’t get inflation back in place … you can have a long series of years where inflation is high and volatile. And it’s hard to invest capital. It’s hard for an economy to perform well. And we’re looking to avoid that.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They don’t really have any military plan beyond outlasting the West’s ability to support the Ukrainian military, in other words, just avoid losing on the battlefield for long enough that the West gets tired of supporting them.

Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If grass and other plants grow in or on the ancient walls and houses this is a problem. So we try to have a sustainable approach to the whole environment in order also to avoid using substances then to avoid growing plants, having plants growing on the walls and ruins.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you want to heal our land and unite our country together, you do n’t do it by appealing to the angry mob, wherever you’re looking at the leader of our country, you do n’t want him to be engaged in a personal vendetta. And when he talks about vengeance, he’s talking about his personal vendettas, and that’s not healthy for America. It’s certainly not healthy for our party. ’ Larry Hogan, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, however, announced on Sunday that Larry Hogan would pass on the 2024 race to avoid splintering the opposition to the ex-president.

Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is particularly worrying to see obesity rates rising fastest among children and adolescents, governments and policymakers around the world need to do all they can to avoid passing health, social and economic costs on to the younger generation.

Louise Baur

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the best way we avoid fighting that war is by showing the (People’s Republic of China) and countries in the region that we can actually win that war.

Christine Wormuth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Spanish and Morocco growers have also decided to sell to Europe instead to avoid the costs of a four-day road trip to Britain, additional fuels costs, customs fees, red tape and queues at the border.

Lee Stiles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The long-term survival of skiing and other winter recreation will depend on nations lowering their carbon emissions to avoid the more dire consequences and severe warming in the future.

Robert Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

Thankfully, our bike paths choose the safest path with the least amount of hills. So, it’s really valuable to look at the ‘ biking ’ route in your GPS and map options, because those paths will allow you to avoid the hills as much as possible.

Nesrine Majzoub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At this time of year, I feel like prevention is a really good approach, so that we can try to avoid having as many of these illnesses as possible, you can’t do everything, but we can do a lot of hand hygiene, (we) can be sure that we’re washing hands and using hand sanitizer appropriately, and we can be sure that we’re not dosing children with medication and sending them off to school, because they’re still contagious.

Susan Woolford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While there are n’t huge gestures, it is part of India’s diplomatic culture to avoid aggression.

Manoj Kewalramani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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