Example Sentences

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Amazon expects that, by 2027, automation will have avoided the need to hire 160,000 U.S. workers — saving 30 cents per package.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 12, 2025

You’ll be a good boy or girl in the eyes of copy editors, and will have avoided a sibilant, which many readers find ugly.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In this way you will have avoided the Five Fingers and the Rink Rapids, and found good ice all the way.

From Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 by Various

But best of all, you will have avoided failure, that dangerous wound.

From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold

And they will have avoided the immeasurable error of making their control of the drink traffic a source of public revenue.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)