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Avoided increases in human exposure to severe drought are also 20-80 per cent lower at 1.5 °C than 3 °C across the six countries.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Alabama: Avoided a repeat of last year’s meeting when the Tide was ranked No. 6 before losing to the Tigers.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

Avoided the green vinyl chairs in therapist rooms.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2011

Can Be Avoided Until September, Silvia Says There is a comforting story about the debt ceiling that goes like this: Back in the 1990s, the U.S. was shrinking its national debt at a rapid pace.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 28, 2011

Always the memory Of overwhelming perils or great joys, Avoided or enjoyed, writes its own trace With such deep characters upon our lives, That all the rest are blotted.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir