eschew
verb (used with object)
to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid.
have eschewed
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present perfectof eschew.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Johns Hopkins is another university whose leaders have eschewed as well as criticized legacy admissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
Back in Toulouse - France's fourth largest city, and a symbol of the modernity many Pyrenees communities have eschewed - the authorities say that Alex experienced no physical violence during his years in the mountains.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
With this last, strange leap, McCarthy proved once and for all the breadth of his storytelling powers, for few authors since Shakespeare have eschewed genre with such dramatic variance.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2023
Tougher credit could bedevil a sector that was already suffering: Office real estate has struggled in the pandemic as many city workers have eschewed their desks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
The same biographers who describe him as a brave soldier, add, that he was a timid horseman and seaman; and indeed he appears to have eschewed every kind of unnecessary danger.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
