Adding guns to that often alcohol-fueled mix exponentially increases the potential for avoidable tragedy.
The way doctors are paid is one reason why avoidable procedures persist.
avoidable care is an issue the medical profession has been aware of for decades.
Herman Cain: An unconventional candidate and campaign in the middle of a classic, yet avoidable, crisis.
But already, evidence is beginning to point to what appears to be an avoidable tragedy.
Yes, I am a little oppressed just now with overwork, nor is this avoidable.
Do not pass between two persons who are talking together, if avoidable.
Your orders are simply to make a reconnaissance and to run no avoidable risks.
Divorce was bad; it was evil; it was avoidable in almost every case.
The unavoidable losses are few in number; the avoidable, many.
c.1300, from Anglo-French avoider "to clear out, withdraw (oneself)," partially anglicized from Old French esvuidier "to empty out," from es- "out" (see ex-) + vuidier "to be empty," from voide "empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste" (see void (adj.)). Originally a law term; modern sense of "have nothing to do with" also was in Middle English and corresponds to Old French eviter with which it was perhaps confused. Meaning "escape, evade" first attested 1520s. Related: Avoided; avoiding.
