avoidances
- plural of avoidance.
Example Sentences
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In worry exposure the person is told to set a daily time to purposefully seat in a "worry chair" and think repeatedly about the thoughts that are anxiety provoking without engaging in distractions or avoidances.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
Superstitions are not free—rituals and avoidances cost an animal in terms of energy or lost opportunities.
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2011
Miss Agatha did not shrink from impossible effort: furthermore she confused the terms ignorance and innocence, and in her furtive avoidances contrived to throw a suggestion of indelicacy upon the most simple of elemental things.
From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills
SOCRATES: They say that what the school of Philebus calls pleasures are all of them only avoidances of pain.
From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin
Mr. Marsh's aspect, if anything, pleased her; she liked these avoidances of the commonplace.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
