Definition of "avoiding" []

• Present participle of avoid. (verb)

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• "In crossing crowded thoroughfares I found I had to be, if anything, more lively in avoiding vehicles, and it was strikingly impressed upon me that my life had cheapened in direct ratio with my clothes."
• "Michael Viner's essay at the Huffington Post about making a deal -- supposedly a headline-grabbing six-figure deal -- for a book from former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a masterpiece in avoiding unflattering facts."
• "Apparently, there is now a whole school of interest in avoiding such gender-biased words as women and history."