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How to use the word avoidable in a Sentence?

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The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood.

John McManus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are eagerly awaiting on a counter proposal and we are ready to put another compelling offer on the table to continue the dialogue, we believe that a strike is avoidable and should be avoided, considering the consequences that would have in our community.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s almost always one – and often multiple – risk factors that are really avoidable with additional societal assistance, being a new parent is hard. And it’s hard to talk about these issues without talking about the supports that we give new parents as a society.

Rebecca Carlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This risk is entirely avoidable since technologies and mission designs now exist that can provide controlled reentries( usually into remote areas of oceans) instead of uncontrolled and therefore entire random ones.

Michael Byers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a father, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of [Taylor's] master sergeants said … that this was avoidable – that they left them over there: They had them over there and let them down, and we can't have that, it can't happen ever again.

Darin Hoover

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a father, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of [Taylor's] master sergeants said … that this was avoidable -- that they left them over there: They had them over there and let them down, and we can't have that.

Darin Hoover

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That didn't happen just once. It happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one, all 13, he looked down at his watch, as a father, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of [Taylor's] master sergeants said … that this was avoidable -- that they left them over there: They had them over there and let them down, and we can't have that.

Darin Hoover

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A question we should ask is if some of those deaths were avoidable.

Murad Banaji

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you look at the number of deaths, about 99.2 % of them are unvaccinated. About 0.8 % are vaccinated. No vaccine is perfect. But when you talk about the avoidability of hospitalization and death, Chuck, it's really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is evident that the tragic shooting of Isaiah Brown was completely avoidable, the deputy in question made multiple, basic policing errors and violated established protocols. The deputy was situated nearly 50 feet from Isaiah, was never threatened, and should not have discharged his weapon.

David Haynes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Isaiah is now fighting for his life as a result of these completely avoidable errors by the deputy and dispatch.

David Haynes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.

Isaac Mashman

added by isaacmashman
3 years ago

I just think that it was avoidable and it it's really disappointing that we still don't have adequate testing, that the credibility of top scientists like yourself and the CDC are being undermined and until recently that parts of the administration were calling into question whether people should even follow basic best practices like wearing masks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mustafa Kassem death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable, we send our sincere condolences to Mr. Kassem's wife and family at this painful time.

David Schenker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These are avoidable deaths. Most concerning is that deaths relating to pollution occur at levels below international recommended pollution limits, the authors provide the strongest evidence yet that target air pollution levels are set too high.

Chris Griffiths

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If they had accepted the offer [that Wells Fargo never made] and kept up with the payments, then the foreclosure would have been avoidable potentially.

The Wells Fargo spokesman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was completely avoidable.

Heather Clare

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was terrible, especially feeling like I put her in that position, it was completely avoidable.

Heather Clare

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Because of House Republican Leadership’s reckless and political actions, hundreds of thousands of Dreamers continue to live in an avoidable and cruel limbo.

Michelle Lujan Grisham

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Conflict's not avoidable. But violent conflict is, seeing a lot of the traumas that take place at work, or in the neighborhood, you realize,' I don't want this to happen anymore. What do we do about it ?'.

Rob Gore

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Having some kind of response plan will minimize avoidable delays.

Ian Drennan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In retrospect, I regret all of it, all the way back to seeing the city move to a different drinking water source. You can't put a dollar amount of the devastation to our community, our kids, and it was completely avoidable.

Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This was a tragic but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error, u.S. forces would never intentionally (strike) a hospital.

John Campbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These are things that are treatable but also avoidable.

Laura Elizabeth Riley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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